The Idea Of Personality Classic Reprint

Author : Archibald Allan
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780365389361
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (893 download)

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Download or read book Space and Personality (Classic Reprint) written by Archibald Allan and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-23 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Space and Personality That our consciousness of space is also our primary, ultimate, and absolute consciousness of Being, is the thesis of the following chapters. It has occupied much of the writer's meditative leisure for many years, and conviction of its truth has deepened the longer it has been pondered. To him it is the Truth, the whole Truth, and the Truth that alone is Whole. Consequently, the aim of the book is to deal not merely with Being and Non-Being, but with Being-Whole; and therefore, while Ontological in its scope, it may be more correctly characterised as Holologico-Ontological. The sketch is thus necessarily, in the nature of things, very imperfect. It is offered as a suggestion, and has no pretence to be exhaustive. The author has not attempted to make the path, but merely to indicate where the path might be made. It was begun in July 1909, and finished in March 1910. But capable and trusted critics who read it in typewriting, were wholly adverse to its publication, though doubtful if they had understood it. The book was then re-written between August 1910 and March 1911, in order to render it more intelligible, and afterwards sent to a publisher who returned it. It was once more entirely revised and put into its present form under the suspicion that imperfect exposition, and the abstruse nature of the subject which is the besetting difficulty of all philosophical work, were doubtless the hindrance to its acceptance. But after all, it still presents to the author himself a very amateurish aspect, and it must appear far more so to trained philosophical thinkers. He is only confident of having tried his best, in a first venture into the philosophical field, to say plainly what he sees. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.