The distinction between mind and its objects : the Adamson lecture for 1913, with an appendix / by Bernard Bosanquet.

  • Bosanquet, Bernard, 1848-1923.
Date:
1913
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Credit: The distinction between mind and its objects : the Adamson lecture for 1913, with an appendix / by Bernard Bosanquet. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Distinction Between Mind and What I desire to consider with you to-nighf* may fairly be described as a new situation in the philosophical world. And I may begin by saying that it is satisfactory that there should be a new situation. It is a testimony to the inexhaustibleness of reality, and, what is ^really the same thing, to the fecundity of the human mind. And in the next place, I shall attempt to shew that the nature of the new appearance constitutes a real advance. There is, indeed, always, I believe, a double interpretation possible in face of new attitudes of mind. The novelty may be satisfactory in itself, or it may be satisfactory because of its suggestions. I shall touch upon such a problem of inter- pretation this evening. But the first and principal matter to which I wish to call your attention is that we have Its