Spiritual Philosophy: Founded On The Teaching Of The Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Softcover

Joseph Henry Green

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0461599708 ISBN 13: 9780461599701

Publisher: HardPress, 1864

Synopsis

Spiritual Philosophy: Founded On The Teaching Of The Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Joseph Henry Green presents Green’s ambitious attempt to translate Coleridge’s philosophy into a comprehensive system of Realism. The two-volume work, edited with a memoir by John Simon after Green’s death, treats Philosophy as a science seeking first principles or Ideas—the Absolute First Principle from which all beings derive their intelligible ground. It distinguishes Speculative Reason from the Understanding, and traces how experience becomes knowledge through Generalization, Induction, and the formation of ideas as laws and causes. Green argues that Reason, enlightened by Will, provides unity in the manifold, and that Will is the causative power behind reality. He develops a complex framework of categories—Substance, Cause, Whole and Parts—and a Polar Logic and Dialectic for reconciling opposites without losing truth. The Soul, the Will, and the operation of Consciousness are explored as the total sphere of being; ethics, religion, and aesthetics are integrated within a Coleridgean vision of philosophy as life. The Memoir situates Green’s life, his collaboration with Coleridge, and his later intellectual labours.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Publication date: 1864
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0461599708
• ISBN 13: 9780461599701
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 394