 is employed in effect with a restrictive meaning ; for it is used to exclude what is above, as well as below, personality. The superpersonal, in other words, is either openly or tacitly regarded as impossible. Personality is taken as the highest possible...  Appearance and Reality: A Metaphysical Essay - Page 531by Francis Herbert Bradley - 1897 - 628 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Francis Herbert Bradley - 1893 - 588 pages
...realise itself in and through me : and, without question, this Whole is very largely social. But 1 do not see my way to the assertion that, even for...of the self and of self-consciousness I have spoken already, 1 and 1 See Chapters ix. and x. Compare xxi. and xxiii. I will merely add here that for me... | |
 | 1894 - 952 pages
...Absolute '" (p. 413). In the Absolute even thought must *' lose and transcend its proper self" (p. 182). "If the term ' personal ' is to bear anything like its ordinary sense, then assuredly the Absolute is not merely personal " (p. 531). " The Absolute is not personal, nor... | |
 | Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison - 1897 - 350 pages
...-human. Now Mr Bradley, of course, intends his unity to be a higher, not a lower unity. " The Absolute is not personal, because it is personal and more. It is, in a word, super-personal " (p. 531). But he is not blind to the danger that lurks in his denials. "It is better," he even warns... | |
 | Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison - 1897 - 80 pages
...Bradley intended his unity to be a higher and not a lower unity. " The Absolute," he says in one place, " is not personal, because it is personal and more. It is, in a word, superpersonal." And as if aware of the danger that lurks in his denials, he even warns us that, if there is a risk... | |
 | Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison - 1897 - 108 pages
...Bradley intended his unity to be a higher and not a lower unity. " The Absolute," he says in one place, " is not personal, because it is personal and more. It is, in a word, superpersonal." And as if aware of the danger that lurks in his denials, he even warns us that, if there is a risk... | |
 | Philip Gledstanes Blyth - 1906 - 232 pages
...speak tv of a thief who never stole, or define a triangle as a \ quadrilateral having three sides. " If the term ' personal ' is to bear anything like its ordinary sense," says Mr. Bradley, "assuredly the Absolute [here substitute " God "] is not merely personal. It is not... | |
 | George Tyrrell - 1907 - 424 pages
...infra-human. Now Mr. Bradley, of course, intends his unity to be a higher, not a lower unity. ' The Absolute is not personal, because it is personal and more. It is, in a word, super-personal.' But he is not blind to the dangers that lurk in his denials. ' It is better,' he even warns us, if... | |
 | George Tyrrell - 1907 - 416 pages
...infra-human. Now Mr. Bradley, of course, intends his unity to be a higher, not a lower unity. ' The Absolute is not personal, because it is personal and more. It is, in a word, super- personal.' Cut he is not blind to the dangers that lurk in his denials. ' It is better,' he... | |
 | Francis Herbert Bradley - 1908 - 658 pages
...course, in principle one. An organism or society, including every self past present and future—and we can hardly take it at less than this —is itself...of the self and of self-consciousness I have spoken already, 1 and 1 See Chapters ix. and x. Compare xxi. and x*»u. I will merely add here that for me... | |
 | Francis Herbert Bradley - 1920 - 662 pages
...social. But I do not see my way to the assertion that, even for Ethics, it is nothing eVse at all (pi>. 415, 431). possess a positive though abstract knowledge....already,1 and 1 See Chapters ix. and x. Compare xxi. and yJw. I will merely add here that for me a person is finite or is meaningless. But the question raised... | |
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