Systematic Theology (Volume 1 of 3)Strong, Augustus Hopkins
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Systematic Theology (Volume 1 of 3)
Strong, Augustus Hopkins
Baptists -- Doctrines; Theology, Doctrinal
Ethical Monism is a monism which holds to the ethical facts of the
freedom of man and the transcendence and personality of God; it is
the monism of free-will, in which personality, both human and
divine, sin and righteousness, God and the world, remain—two in
one, and one in two—in their moral antithesis as well as their
natural unity. Ladd, Introd. to Philosophy: “Dualism is yielding,
in history and in the judgment-halls of reason, to a monistic
philosophy.... Some form of philosophical monism is indicated by
the researches of psycho-physics, and by that philosophy of mind
which builds upon the principles ascertained by these researches.
Realities correlated as are the body and the mind must have, as it
were, a common ground.... They have their reality in the ultimate
one Reality; they have their interrelated lives as expressions of
the one Life which is immanent in the two.... Only some form of
monism that shall satisfy the facts and truths to which both
realism and idealism appeal can occupy the place of the true and
final philosophy.... Monism must so construct its tenets as to
preserve, or at least as not to contradict and destroy, the truths
implicated in the distinction between the _me_ and the _not-me_,
... between the morally good and the morally evil. No form of
monism can persistently maintain itself which erects its system
upon the ruins of fundamentally ethical principles and ideals.”...
Philosophy of Mind, 411—“Dualism must be dissolved in some
ultimate monistic solution. The Being of the world, of which all
particular beings are but parts, must be so conceived of as that
in it can be found the one ground of all interrelated existences
and activities.... This one Principle is an Other and an Absolute
Mind.”
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