The Self-Revelation of God (Paperback)


Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. GOD KNOWN IN EXPERIENCE OR CONSCIOUSNESS. God is known in experience or consciousness. I. Some preliminary explanations are necessary to clear the meaning of this proposition. We are said to know in experience whatever is known in pre- sentative intuition; it may be either the mind itself in its several acts and states or some reality which is not self. Whatever reality has come under our immediate observation is said to be known in experience. In other words, we know in experience whatever is or has been presented in consciousness. What is known in experience may be also said to be known in consciousness. Consciousness as thus used includes the primitive or intuitive knowledge both of the subject and the object. Consciousness as used in the earlier Scotch philosophy, and commonly in Great Britain and America, means the mind's immediate knowledge of its own mental states and acts, or at most, the mind's knowledge of itself in those states and acts. In this narrower meaning of the word it is not correct to say that we are conscious of God, or that he is present to our consciousness. In German philosophy consciousness is used in a broader sense to denote the intuitive, undiscriminated knowledge of both object and subject, the immediate knowledge in one and the same act of the object known and the subject knowing. Hamilton introduced this usage into Great Britain, maintaining, to use his own example, that a man may be conscious of his ink-stand. In popular language consciousness is used with this broadei meaning. We speak of a person absorbed in thought as being unconscious of all which is going on around him; of a person fainting or rescued from drowning as having lost all consciousness. The literary usage is the same. So Tennyson uses it: ? " Slo...

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. GOD KNOWN IN EXPERIENCE OR CONSCIOUSNESS. God is known in experience or consciousness. I. Some preliminary explanations are necessary to clear the meaning of this proposition. We are said to know in experience whatever is known in pre- sentative intuition; it may be either the mind itself in its several acts and states or some reality which is not self. Whatever reality has come under our immediate observation is said to be known in experience. In other words, we know in experience whatever is or has been presented in consciousness. What is known in experience may be also said to be known in consciousness. Consciousness as thus used includes the primitive or intuitive knowledge both of the subject and the object. Consciousness as used in the earlier Scotch philosophy, and commonly in Great Britain and America, means the mind's immediate knowledge of its own mental states and acts, or at most, the mind's knowledge of itself in those states and acts. In this narrower meaning of the word it is not correct to say that we are conscious of God, or that he is present to our consciousness. In German philosophy consciousness is used in a broader sense to denote the intuitive, undiscriminated knowledge of both object and subject, the immediate knowledge in one and the same act of the object known and the subject knowing. Hamilton introduced this usage into Great Britain, maintaining, to use his own example, that a man may be conscious of his ink-stand. In popular language consciousness is used with this broadei meaning. We speak of a person absorbed in thought as being unconscious of all which is going on around him; of a person fainting or rescued from drowning as having lost all consciousness. The literary usage is the same. So Tennyson uses it: ? " Slo...

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2012

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2012

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236

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978-1-4589-3495-6

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9781458934956

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