The critics of humanism (though here I follow them but darkly) appear to object to any infusion whatever of subjectivism into truth.
One might doubt the correctness of this theory, but I do not see how one could doubt its import, or could accuse it of subjectivism or idealism, since the object with its power to produce effects is assumed.
Put in terms of systems, the difficulty is that in escaping the subjectivism latent in treating perception as a case of knowledge, the realist runs into the waiting arms of the objective idealist.
The passage in the second Analogy may very well, in view of the kind of subjectivism which it expounds, be of early date of writing.
We have, as we shall find, to recognise a second fundamental conflict in Kant's thinking, additional to that between subjectivism and phenomenalism.
The only way in which he can effectively meet it is by frank recognition and development of the phenomenalism with which his subjectivism comes into so frequent conflict.
For as the subjectivism of much of Kant's teaching is beyond question, consistency can be obtained only by sacrifice of all that conflicts with it.
To debar subjectivism is not to maintain the illusory or phenomenal character of the individual self; and to rule out materialism is not to assert that the unconscious may not generate and account for the conscious.
Secondly, Kant's subjectivism undergoes a similar transformation on its inner or mental side.
It is, as we have seen above, a combination of subjectivism and of dogmatic rationalism.
This is what affords Schopenhauer such justification, certainly very strong, as he can cite for regarding subjectivism as the undoubted teaching of the first edition.
The one inculcates a subjectivism of a very extreme type; the other results in a realism, which though ultimately phenomenalist, is none the less genuinely objective in character.
Kant's subjectivism is similarly expounded in a one-sided and quite unrepresentative manner (cf.
This fourth paragraph is coloured by his phenomenalism, whereas in the immediately following fifth paragraph his subjectivism gains the upper hand.
None the less Kant's subjectivism finds one of its most decided expressions in A 114.
In so far as subjectivism reduces reality to states of knowledge, such as perceptions or ideas, it is phenomenalism.
We have already followed the fortunes of that empirical subjectivism which issues from the relativity of perception.
Sidenote: The General Tendency ofSubjectivism to Transcend Itself.
Subjectivism signifies the conviction that the knower cannot escape himself.
Sidenote: The Principle of Subjectivism Extended to Reason.
Since the essence of subjectivism is epistemological rather than metaphysical, its practical and religious implications are various.
Such then are the various paths which lead from subjectivism to other types of philosophy, demonstrating the peculiar aptitude of the former for departing from its first principle.
In absolute idealism, the principle of subjectivism is extended to reason itself.
I venture to believe that this, at any rate, is not the case with that form of ethical subjectivism which I am here advocating.
Far from being a danger, ethical subjectivism seems to me more likely to be an acquisition for moral practice.
Ethical subjectivismis commonly held to be a dangerous doctrine, destructive to morality, opening the door to all sorts of libertinism.
We protest against subjectivism in philosophy only when it denies the possibility of an objective philosophy.
If we criticize men like James and Bergson and other philosophers of subjectivism we do it as a defence of the indispensable character of the objectivity of science as well as of philosophy as a science.
Lastly, the subjectivism of Newman and the Modernists is fatal to that exclusiveness which is the corner-stone of Catholic policy.
The pretensions of psychology rehabilitated subjectivism and founded pragmatism, till reactionary theology took heart of grace and defended crude supernaturalism, with the whole apparatus of sacerdotal magic, as the 'Gospel for human needs.
It is of special interest (a point I have only discovered later) that Aristotle has suggested an analogy between ethical subjectivism and the logical subjectivism of Protagoras, and equally repudiates both (Metaph.
Such an examination is in this case peculiarly difficult, because in Individualism and Subjectivism diverse forms mingle together and give to the movement very different levels.
We mean the system of Subjectivism and Individualism.
We have already seen, in the Sophists, the phenomenon of subjectivism leading to scepticism.
Lack of originality is a second consequence of the subjectivism of the age.
The subjectivism of the Stoics and Epicureans is followed by the scepticism of Pyrrho and his successors.
Lastly, subjectivism ends naturally in scepticism, the denial of all knowledge, the rejection of all philosophy.
The essential mark of the decay of Greek thought was the intense subjectivism which is a feature of all the post-Aristotelian schools.
This subjectivism has as its necessary consequences, one-sidedness, absence of originality, and finally complete scepticism.
Our subjectivism is as different from his individualism as his modernity was from medievalism.
It is an evil, however, in Mr. Russell's opinion, that subjectivism has been fostered in Protestant morality.
In theology, subjectivism develops as its 'left wing' antinomianism.
And of all the various ways of operating the disinfection, and making bad seem less bad, the way of subjectivism appears by far the best.
Let a subjectivism {171} begin in never so severe and intellectual a way, it is forced by the law of its nature to develop another side of itself and end with the corruptest curiosity.
If we practically take up subjectivism in a sincere and radical manner and follow its consequences, we meet with some that make us pause.
Can we wonder if those bred in the rugged and manly school of science should feel like spewing such subjectivism out of their mouths?
But if, as a matter of fact, these categories are in the reality formally, nay, even if they are in it only fundamentally, the inference that issues in Kantian subjectivism is unwarranted.
Mill, for instance, following out the arbitrary postulates of subjectivism and phenomenism, finally analysed all reality into present sensations of the individual consciousness, plus permanent possibilities of sensations.
Subjectivism is really nothing but scepticism, for it eliminates the knowableness of objective truth.
It is now clear that subjectivism and autonomism in thinking are rooted in the positive disregard of objective truth, in the refusal of an unconditional subjection to it; they mean emancipation from the truth.
Before considering subjectivism let us by way of preface set down a few considerations on the nature of human, intellectual perception.
At the same time he gave prominence to that element of subjectivism which seems to give justification to freedom of thought, to wit, autonomism, the creative power of the intellect which makes its own laws.
Of course it would be too much to expect that subjectivism in modern thought and scientific work should go to the very limit, viz.
But Kant's autonomy means emancipation from objective truth, and hence, though Kant himself held fast to the unchangeable laws of thinking and acting, he energetically opened the way for subjectivism with all its consequences.
But this is also an unproved assumption: it is the duality of subjectivism and agnosticism, the fundamental presumption of liberal freedom of science, which we have already sufficiently exposed.
Thus modernsubjectivism has lost all sense for definite rules of thought; in its frantic rush for freedom and in its confused excitement it seeks to upset all barriers.
It was Kant, the herald of a new era in philosophy, who gave to this gradually maturing subjectivism its scientific form and basis.
That he is thereby landed in pure subjectivism or the reduction of every existence to the purely mental, follows only if experience means only mental states.
In English and American writings the terms subjective and subjectivism usually carry with them a disparaging color.
Hence the appeal to this isolation, made alike by idealism and realism, in charging instrumental logic with subjectivism is an elementary petitio.
Objective" idealism is trying, like Mill, to escape the subjectivismof the purely individual and "psychical" knower.
It has been said that the account given above and the account of traditionalsubjectivism differ only verbally.
Subjectivism served in ancient thought to invalidate knowledge not to enlarge it.
A skepticism based upon subjectivism might thereafter question the justification of the reference of experience beyond itself; it could not question knowledge and its immediate object.
The fault was not wholly in thesubjectivism of the movement.
As the years rolled on, the early Lutheran Church in America became increasingly infected with this poison of subjectivism and enthusiasm, especially its English portions.
He cannot free himself from his subjectivism and does not find the link to objective thinking, i.
This underlying subjectivism also explains the singular satisfaction of Hegel, whose glance was comprehensive enough, with so strangely limited a world as he describes to us.
At the same time thissubjectivism is not irreligious.
Subjectivism can rule even within the subject and can make him substitute his idea of himself, in his most self-satisfied moment, for the poor desultory self that he has actually been.
What is supposed to rescue the system of Hegel from subjectivism is the most subjective of things--a dialectic which obeys the impulses of a theoretical parti pris, and glorifies a fixed idea.
And yet, on the other hand, to conclude our survey of his “abasement of practical Christianity,” he is so ultramodern on a capital point of his ethics as to merit being styled the precursor of modern subjectivism as applied to morals.
Even the very Creeds he had undermined by that subjectivism which he had exalted into a principle.
Pseudo-mystic influences explain both his subjectivism and those quietistic principles, traces of which are long met with in his writings.
The Help of Conscience at Critical Junctures It was the part played by subjectivism in Luther’s ethics that led him in certain circumstances to extend suspiciously the rights of “conscience.
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