Reading Notes: December 30th, 2021

“But thought is capable of another and deeper movement. It can rise to a universality which is not foreign to, but the very inward nature of things in themselves, not the universal of an abstraction from the particular and different, but the unity which is immanent in them and finds in them its own necessary expression; not an arbitrary invention of the observing and classifying mind unifying in its own imagination things which are yet essentially different, but an idea which expresses the inner dialectic, the movement or process towards unity, which exists in and constitutes the being of the objects themselves. This deeper and truer universality is that which may be designated ideal or organic universality.” (Caird, An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion, 217–218) 

“I have begun by showing that tychism must give birth to an evolutionary cosmology, in which all the regularities of nature and of mind are regarded as products of growth, and to a Schelling-fashioned idealism which holds matter to be mere specialized and partially deadened mind….[W]hat we call matter is not completely dead, but is merely mind hidebound with habits.” (Pierce, The Law of Mind, 339-350) 

“Moore’s critique rests on a conflation between the ontological claim that sensation is a sensation of something, hence of that which is outside spirit, outside experience but given in it through sensation, and the epistemological claim that what is given in sensation is identical with, or the same as, what stands outside experience.” (Rockmore, Hegel, Idealism, and Analytic Philosophy, 67)