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英語
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内容記述(抄録等)
Situating Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s thought on historically actualized ideas with reference to a range of classical thinkers, this article examines his intriguing philosophical theory about how ideas become progressively actualized in history. This cultural growth can be understood as contemplation-in-action, although it occurs through mainly fumbling – or else overenthusiastic – human agents. I distinguish Coleridgean first-order, transcendent ideas (such as God, infinity, the good, the soul) from second-order, historical ones (such as church, state, the constitution). It has been argued that Coleridge’s theory of ideas develops from Bacon’s inductive method for discovering laws of nature through experiment and natural law through common law. I further claim that Coleridge upholds the reality of “Forms” in science, and of rights in ethics and politics; that his later political thought is inherently more progressive than is generally admitted; and that his account differs from Schelling’s and Hegel’s respective theories by maintaining the transcendence of ideas above the immanence of their evolving historical actualizations. Coleridge’s philosophy is therefore, whether political or metaphysical, ultimately an ontological defence of the transcendence of ideas above the immanence of their progressive but imperfect actualization.
主題
Coleridge
ideas
history
reason
Platonism
contemplation
actualization
Heraclitus
Plato
Plotinus
Bacon
Schelling
Hegel
Mill
掲載誌名
Intellectual History Review
29
3
開始ページ
489
終了ページ
514
ISSN
1749-6977
ISSN(Online)
1749-6985
発行日
2018-12-05
DOI
出版者
International Society for Intellectual History
資料タイプ
学術雑誌論文
ファイル形式
PDF
関連情報
著者版/出版社版
著者版
業績ID
e35064
部局
法文学部
備考
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Intellectual History Review on 5 December 2018, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/17496977.2018.1521627