The Religious Aspect of Philosophy: A Critique of the Bases of Conduct and of Faith (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Religious Aspect of Philosophy: A Critique of the Bases of Conduct and of FaithAlso he has of course a decided debt to acknowl edge. There are in recent philosophical history two promising idealist, with his general and fruitful insistence upon the great fun damental truths of idealism; the other the technical Hegel of the Logik, whose dialectic method seems destined to remain, not a philosophy, but the idea of a philosophy. With this latter Hegel the author feels a great deal of discontent; to the other Hegel, whose insight, as we know, was by no means inde pendent of that of Fichte and other contemporaries. But who was certainly the most many-sided and crit ical of the leaders of the one great common idealistic movement of the early part of the century, to him we all owe a great debt indeed. It is, however, a mistake to neglect the other idealists just for the sake of glorifying him. And it is an intolerable blunder to go on repeating what we may have learned from him in the awkward and whimsical speech of the wondrous and crabbed master. If Hegel taught anything, then what he taught can be conveyed in an utterly non-hegelian vocabulary, or else Hegel is but a king of the rage and tatters of a flimsy terminology, and no king of thought at all. It is therefore absolutely the duty of a man who.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.