The Worlds Greatest Books Vol 5 Classic Reprint

Author : Arthur Mee
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781334021831
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book The World's Greatest Books, Vol. 14 written by Arthur Mee and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The World's Greatest Books, Vol. 14: Philosophy (Continued); Economics The glory of the Oriental conception is the one indi vidual as the substantial being to which all belongs, so that no other individual has a separate existence, or mirrors himself in his subjective freedom. All the riches of imagination and nature are appropriated to that domi nant existence in which subjective freedom is essentially merged; the latter looks for its dignity not in itself but in the absolute Object. All the elements of a complete state - even subjectivity - may be found there, but not yet harmonised with the grand substantial being. For outside the one power - before which nothing can main tain an independent existence - there is only revolting caprice, which, beyond the limits Of the central power, moves at will without purpose or result. Accordingly we find the wild herds breaking out from the upland, falling upon the countries in question and laying them waste, or settling down in them and giving up their wild life; but in all cases lost resultlessly in the central substance. This phase of substantiality, since it has not taken up its antithesis into itself and overcome it, directly divides itself into two elements. On the one Side we see duration, stability - empires belonging, as it were, to mere Space (as distinguished from Time); unhistorical history, as, for example, in China, the state based on the family rela tion. Yet the states in question, without undergoing any Change in themselves, or in the principle of their exist ence, are constantly changing their opinion towards each other. They are in ceaseless con ict, which brings on rapid destruction. The opposing principle of individu ality enters into these con icting relations; but it is itself as yet only unconscious, merely natural universality light which is not yet the light of the personal soul. This history, too, is for the most part really unhistorical, for it is only the repetition of the same majestic ruin. 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."