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The Conception of Reality as A Whole

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

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The subject of the present paper is the central conception of a philosophy that has been particularly dominant and influential, and the following remarks are prompted because of difficulties experienced in the attempt to understand that philosophy. The aim of the paper is to point out what seems to be a serious defect in that type of philosophy; but it is even more its aim to emphasize the danger into which philosophy in all its forms may easily fall, and against which it must exercise precautions.

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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1931

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page 5 note 1 This is the effect which Bradley's Appearance and Reality and Bosanquet, , Logic, vol. i. p. 4.Google ScholarTaylor, A. E., Elements of Metaphysics, p. 100.Google Scholar

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page 6 note 1 This is the effect which Bradley's Appearance and Reality and A. E. Taylor's Elements of Metaphysics (ch. ii) in particular produce on me.

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page 8 note 1 Taylor, , op. cit., pp. 9598.Google ScholarBosanquet, , Philosophical Theory of the State, p. 175.Google Scholar See also Giddings, , Principles of Sociology, p. 420Google Scholar, for consideration of various wholes.

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page 13 note 1 For this reason we should not accept Wallas's, Graham view (The Great Society, p. 374)Google Scholar: “New social arrangements to meet the needs of a new environment cannot be invented for the mass of mankind by a few professed thinkers, but must be the result of innumerable experiments in which as many individuals as possible have freely taken part.”

page 13 note 2 Especially the work of Professor Elliott Smith and W. J. Perry.

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page 14 note 1 That this is meant is suggested by Bosanquet's further remarks.

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page 15 note 2 Ibid., p. 104. “It is the nature of the whole which determines the character of each of its constituents.”

page 15 note 3 Ibid., p. 97.

page 15 note 4 Ibid., op. cit., pp. 97–98.

page 15 note 5 Ibid., p. 98.

page 16 note 1 Taylor, p. 100.

page 16 note 2 Ibid., p. 23.

page 16 note 3 Ibid., p. 349.

page 16 note 4 Ibid., op. cit., pp. 100, 350–352.

page 16 note 5 Ibid., p. 349.

page 16 note 6 Ibid., p. 347.

page 16 note 7 Ibid., p. 100. Cf. p. 103.