This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ... part two the struggle for selfhood with the establishment of naturalism as a doctrine of life, the claims of humanism were found to be such that they could not be ignored; but the general recognition of human life as a fact cannot be accepted as a complete and detailed doctrine of individualism. On ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ... part two the struggle for selfhood with the establishment of naturalism as a doctrine of life, the claims of humanism were found to be such that they could not be ignored; but the general recognition of human life as a fact cannot be accepted as a complete and detailed doctrine of individualism. On this account, it becomes necessary to inquire just what individualism is supposed to be; for, where modern thought has been most assiduous in seeking the forms and causes which obtain in nature, it has not been so ready to inquire what "being one's self " really means. The method of research which the course of nineteenth century individualism has followed, makes possible a threefold formulation of the individualistic problem upon the basis of sense, volition, and thought. The human self is an "I think," an "I will," an "I am "; for this reason, we must follow the dictates of an aestheticism which presents egoism as a fact of immediate existence, immoralism which asserts the right of the individualistic initiative, and irreKgion, in which the affirmation of the self assumes its most strident form. In all three of these, the individualist must be prepared for the expression of egoism in an exaggerated form; and, should he be tempted to feel that his individualism, his doctrine, has been expressed morbidly or viciously, let him not forget how relentlessly scientism has sought to eliminate the human self from the world. Then the exaggerations of egoism, as these appear in art, ethics, and religion, will seem at once explicable and justifiable. The aesthetic self of antiquity and the religious soul of mediaevalism were easily overcome by the naturalistic influences of modern thought; the egoism of the nineteenth century, however, may present a...
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