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Education and the Philosophical Ideal

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Preface - Introduction - The New Point of View - Educational Ideals - Equanimity - The Subconscious Mind - The Spiritual Ideal in Childhood - An Experiment in Education - The Expression of the Spirit - An Ideal Summer Conference - The Ministry of the Spirit - The Mystery of Pain and Evil - The Philosophical Ideal - The Criteria of Truth - Organic Perfection - Immortality - Index - p. 247

categories, respectively: Existence, Essence, Mode, Causality, End, Space, Time, Number, Relation."

In a more definite way we may state the great problems as follows:

What is matter? Are atoms (if they exist) ultimate?

What is mind or consciousness?

How are matter and mind related?

What is force--ultimately? (Mechanism.) What is life—ultimately 2 (Organism.)

What is causation--ultimately? (God.)

What are time and space?

Do we possess any knowledge beyond experience?

How is finite experience possible?

How is knowledge of any sort possible?

How did it begin that? ---, What constitutes a finite being? (Paradox of the infinite and finite.)

Why does the universe exist, and how?

What is the basis of moral obligation?

Does man possess freedom of will?

Is man an immortal soul, possessing ultimately separate individuality?

What is evil?

What is the ultimate good?

What is the relation of ethical individuals (pluralism) to the one Reality 2 (as defined by monism.')

Of course the mere statement of these questions involves certain uncritical assumptions. But all these problems have engaged philosophical inquiry,

(1) See The Will to Believe, by Professor James. Longman, Green, & Co., 1897.

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