[MD] CA 2

[John Carl]

Never heard of him Craig.  What a piss poor scholar I am.  He does sound a
lot like Royce, in many ways.

On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 11:53 AM, <craigerb at comcast.net> wrote:

> [CoP]
> > Further, after Bradley and Bosanquet idealism turned from absolute to
> personal idealism
>
> [John]
> > We end with Bradley and Royce
> > and their individual stances of Absolute Idealism.
>
> "Bosanquet" that's "Royce" in French.
> Craig
>
>
'cept he's British, ya know of course.

Very interesting stuff tho. I like the way he's described in the SEP as
primarily seeking concordance and harmony with other philosophers.

Thanks for the nifty heads-up.

John



throughout Bosanquet's work is his desire to find common ground among
philosophers of various traditions and to show relationships among different
schools of thought, rather than to dwell on what separates them.

Bosanquet's philosophical views were in many ways a reaction to 19th century
Anglo-American empiricism and materialism (e.g., that of Jeremy Bentham,
John Stuart Mill and Alexander Bain), but also to that of contemporary
personalistic idealism (e.g. that of Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison, James
Ward, Hastings Rashdall, W.R. Sorley, and J.M.E. McTaggart) and organicism
(e.g. Herbert Spencer). Bosanquet held that the inspiration of many of his
ideas could be found in Hegel, Kant, and Rousseau and, ultimately, in
classical Greek thought. Indeed, while at the beginning of his philosophical
career Bosanquet described Kant and Hegel as “the great masters who
‘sketched the plan’,” he said that the most important influence on him was
that of Plato. The result was a brand of idealist philosophical thought that
combined the Anglo-Saxon penchant for empirical study with a vocabulary and
conceptual apparatus borrowed from the continent.