[MD] CA 2 - an aside

[John Carl]

here's another flavor of Absolute Idealism, that Craig just turned me on to
Marsha.  It's delicious!  Don't you think this also harmonizes with the MoQ?
 He sounds like he's describing Quality, in it's most Phaedrusian
originality, to a 'T":


For Bosanquet, logic is central to philosophy — but it is ‘logic’ in a broad
sense. He writes: “By Logic we understand, with Plato and Hegel, the supreme
law or nature of experience, the impulse towards unity and coherence […] by
which every fragment yearns towards the whole to which it belongs…” (*Principle
of Individuality and Value*, p. 340); the “inherent nature of reason” is
“the absolute demand for totality and consistency” (*Value and Destiny of
the Individual*, p. 9). Moreover, logic — “the spirit of totality” — is “the
clue to reality, value and freedom” (*Principle of Individuality and Value*,
p. 23). Not surprisingly, then, Bosanquet argues that metaphysics — “the
general science of reality” — cannot be distinguished from logic — the
science of knowledge — any more than one can separate a result from the
process which produces it.