Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 Excerpt: ...possibility, or form, being unable to get out of itself, as the will does. The principle of the Idea is only to determine the what of things,--the that being determined by the will. As self-identical it determines that all things shall centre in one thing,--i. e., have an end,--and that there shall be law, or necessary order of succession, among things in general, or that there shall be an efficient cause for everything; that is to say, in the Idea are contained together, and as two aspects of the same thing, final and efficient causes, the latter depending on the former, as the higher. Finally, all necessity, causal, final, deterministic (by motive), is necessity only because it is logical. The Identical Substance of both Attributes.--Will and Idea cannot really be conceived as independent ultimate substances. So conceived, they are without the possibility of influencing one another; they must be viewed as attributes of a single substance,--which has been denominated the Unconscious. Such an inner dualism in the absolute substance as thus results is not impossible, but an indispensable condition to its having existence (for consciousness). An Absolute One could exist only as absolutely rigid, identically self-persistent, not a principle either of being or of knowledge in relation to any process, such as the phenomenal world presents to us; it could be only empty volition. That an actual process may come to pass, there must be, besides the commencing factor, at least one other that encounters the former, and indeed in the double sense of the term of succoring and opposing; for only from the co-operation and counteraction of at least two moments can a process result. The Unconscious is then both one and many,--primarily the former. The problem of the Oneness...
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