Download PDF by Charles Hartshorne: Wisdom as Moderation: A Philosophy of the Middle Way

By Charles Hartshorne

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One of many nice residing philosophers units forth his notion of philosophical knowledge as a median among extremes within the philosophy of existence and faith, with purposes to ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics, philosophy of faith, and sensible affairs. This paintings brings to a brand new concentration the cohesion of Hartshorne's notion as an entire, displaying the connection among reliable philosophical experience and sturdy logic.

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Absolutes will not help in these matters. "I am simply not that self"; "I simply am that self"; these are both wrong. One should not try to dissect with an axe, as Peirce liked to say. That on the issue before us Peirce was on the Buddhist side is a textually defensible claim. '' This was a false extreme that said: the conceivably possible is continuous [true]; the actual also is continuous [false, unless carefully qualified]. On this issue Peirce was an extremist, as was his brilliant father. The Fascination of Extreme Views: Materialism Again Where extreme clashes with contrary extreme there is often, on both sides, a conviction (perhaps not wholly conscious) of the impossibility of a middle position.

A4 If there can be a particular color, say green, in the absence of its opposite, red, this is because the various colors are special cases of the more general idea of color, and of the still more general idea of sensory quality. But metaphysical terms like universal-particular, or cause-effect, are too general to be treated as mere special cases. Particular entities have universal aspects; every Page 8 effect becomes a cause and there are no causes not productive of subsequent effects. Both sides of metaphysical contrasts must be illustrated in every actual case.

Page 20 How about remorse for past wrongdoing? One is still, in part, that previous self, and this may, in the case in hand, be the relevant part of one's present self. Absolutes will not help in these matters. "I am simply not that self"; "I simply am that self"; these are both wrong. One should not try to dissect with an axe, as Peirce liked to say. That on the issue before us Peirce was on the Buddhist side is a textually defensible claim. '' This was a false extreme that said: the conceivably possible is continuous [true]; the actual also is continuous [false, unless carefully qualified].

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