University Studies No. 10 Hegelianism and Human Personality

A prolonged study of the philosophy of Hegel and the copious literature on it in the English language has brought me to the conclusion that the truth is to be found in the synthesis in the Hegelian sense of the term of the views of Caird Wallace and others on the one side and of Dr. [...] If all reality is at bottom one and that unity is the unity of self-consciousness its value and significance is necessarily greater than that of the mere object however much the existence of the object may be implied in that of the self: The self is more than the object awl the object in spite of its essential correlativity with the self is when compared with it unconsciously reduced to the [...] And finally in the harmony between the unity and the individuals neither side is sub-ordinated to the other but the harmony is an immediate and ultimate fact." (Ibid p. 19.) Hegel defines the Absolute Idea thus: "The Idea as unity of the subjective and objective idea is the notion of the Idea —a notion whose object is the Idea as such and for which the objective is Idea —an object which e [...] The relation between the universal and the individual it is of the utmost importance to remember is not one of the whole and the parts. [...] The first it is easy to see correponds to the Absolute Idea of the Logic ; the second to the externalisation of the Idea in nature and man in so far as man is a natural being; and the third to the Absolute Spirit.