Absolute

At that period all the efforts of religious philosophy were directed to widen theology and to effect a reconciliation between reason and faith.

The fundamental idea of Eckhart's philosophy is that of the absolute or abstract unity conceived as the sole real existence.

His God is the Theos Agnostos of the Neoplatonists.

He is absolutely devoid of attributes which would be a limitation of his infinity.

How then, it may be asked, can God be a person? The answer is that by the eternal generation of the Son, the Father becomes conscious of himself, and the love reflected back to the Father by the Son is the Holy Spirit.

Together with the Son, God also begets the ideal forms of created things.

The Absolute is thus the common background of God and the universe.

like as the sun does so everything born of god tends to return to him and to lose itself in the unity of his being this theology is really pantheism of the absolute we have no cognizance but only of phenomena but by the resolute endeavour to abstract ourselves from time and space we can according to eckart at rare moments attain to the absolute by virtue of what he calls the spark funkelein of the soul which comes direct from god this is really god acting in man to know god is to be one with god This is the final end of all our activity, and the means of attaining thereto is complete quietism.

It is the absolutistic brand spurning the dust and reared upon pure logic.

it keeps no connection whatever with concreteness affirming the absolute mind which is its substitute for god to be the rational presupposition of all particulars of fact whatever they may be it remains supremely indifferent to what the particular facts in our world actually are Be they what they may, the Absolute will father them.

Like the sick lion in Aesop's fable, all footprints lead into his den, but nulla vestigia retrusum.

You cannot redescend into the world of particulars by the Absolute's aid, or deduce any necessary consequences of detailed importance for your life from your idea of his nature.

He gives you indeed the assurance that all is well with him, and for his eternal way of thinking, but thereupon he leaves you to be finitely saved by your own temporal devices.

Far be it from me to deny the majesty of this conception, or its capacity to yield religious comfort to a most respectable class of minds.

In short, they mean we have a right ever and anon to take a moral holiday, to let the world wag in its own way, feeling that its issues are in better hands than ours, and are none of our business.

The universe is a system of which the individual members may relax their anxieties occasionally, in which their don't-care mood is also right for men, and moral holidays in order.

It is a possible object in the logical meaning that it is not a self-contradictory idea, like every other idea that we can have.

it is not self-contradictory for it is itself the idea of that which is consistent therefore argues the idealist it is for that which must be and can be surely exists The reader will now understand why I introduced this account of the Absolute with a description for comparison of the Saint Anselm proof of the existence of God.

There is one further question.

Whether the Absolute does or does not exist, is it, either in idea or reality, of any use to us? The reply is that its value lies in this, that it reveals to us the nature of reality and the meaning of truth.

Logic is the creative power of thought, which leads us to the discovery of higher and higher degrees of reality.

The satyr, in the fable, drove his guests from his shelter because the man blew into his hands to warm them and into his porridge to cool it.

You have to relearn it and relearn it because absolute truths, I believe, are the hardest things to keep real in our mind.

Is your marriage an absolute truth? It depends on you.

right it's a lot of times when your husband messes up you know uh a lot of times you just say but i'm married to him so we got to make this work that's an absolute but that you made that real if it's not made real in your mind if it's something that you know you can just back out of at any given time then nobody's willing to work on it and it's not an absolute anymore Absolutes, a lot of times, have to be reviewed to remain real.

A marriage has to be reviewed to remain real.

Your child is doing terrible things and you say, if this wasn't my kid, I wouldn't...

This is the coherence theory.

let us see what it implies as to the ultimate nature of truth and reality in both the theories we have now examined truth is a logical character of ideas in the correspondence theory there is indeed supposed a non-logical reality but it is only in the ideas that there is the conformity or correspondence which constitutes their truth in the coherence theory reality is itself ideal and the ultimate ground of everything is logical this is the theory of truth that accords with the idealist view and this view finds its most perfect expression in the theory of the absolute The absolute is the idea of an object that realizes perfect logical consistency.

This object logic itself creates, if it be a necessary existence, then knowledge of it cannot be other than truth.

This view, on account of the supreme position that it assigns to the intellect, and of the fundamental character with which it invests the logical categories, has been named by those who oppose it intellectualism.

It is important that it should be clearly understood, and the next chapter will be devoted to its exposition.

CHAPTER FOUR THE ABSOLUTE a comparison of the two theories of truth examined in the last chapter will show that whereas both rest on a logical quality in ideas the first depends on an external view taken by the mind of an independent non-mental reality whereas the second depends on the discovery of an inner meaning in experience itself it is this inner meaning of experience that we seek to know when asking any question concerning reality it is the development of this view and what it implies as to the ultimate nature of reality and truth that we are now to examine when we ask questions about reality we assume in the very inquiry that reality is of a nature that experience reveals reality in its ultimate nature may be logical that is to say of the nature of reason or it may be non-logical that is to say of the nature of feeling or will

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