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... nature of things - to determine the meaning , structure , and principles of whatever is insofar as it is . Although this study is popu- larly conceived as referring to anything excessively subtle and highly theoretical and although it ...
... nature of things - to determine the meaning , structure , and principles of whatever is insofar as it is . Although this study is popu- larly conceived as referring to anything excessively subtle and highly theoretical and although it ...
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... Nature as mechan- ical or teleo- logical Theories of Kant and Bradley Theory of Hegel All reality. the question of the status , or standing , of material things , the kind of being they possess . It has been repeatedly suggested by ...
... Nature as mechan- ical or teleo- logical Theories of Kant and Bradley Theory of Hegel All reality. the question of the status , or standing , of material things , the kind of being they possess . It has been repeatedly suggested by ...
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... nature but , on the contrary , openly proclaimed it . Nature was there for mind to master it and in so doing to discover itself . The field in which Hegel first worked out this theory was that of human affairs . The human world may be ...
... nature but , on the contrary , openly proclaimed it . Nature was there for mind to master it and in so doing to discover itself . The field in which Hegel first worked out this theory was that of human affairs . The human world may be ...
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