The Pathway to Reality, Stage the Second: Being the Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of St. Andrews in the Session 1903-1904 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Richard Burdon Haldane

9780484006545: The Pathway to Reality, Stage the Second: Being the Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of St. Andrews in the Session 1903-1904 (Classic Reprint)

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In my earlier volume the chief topic was the complete relativity of our knowledge, in everyday life and in physical science. The nature of reality was subjected to a scrutiny which ended in the recognition of a boundary line to such knowledge. Beyond that boundary line it appeared to be im possible to pass in the absence of an interpretation of mind, and of its relation to the Universe, more definite and more extensive than that which is current in everyday usage. In this volume I have done what I could to find the interpretation needed, and, with its aid, to cross the line. I have tried to find the answer to the question what we are really striving to express when we speak of God and of Freedom and of Immortality. It has seemed to me that, in the two thousand years which have passed since Aristotle taught on these topics, progress in our knowledge has been made, but progress in the main on certain lines which he laid down.

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