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Synthetica: Being Meditations Epistemological and Ontological, vol. 2

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Synthetica: Being Meditations Epistemological and Ontological, vol. 2
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Prefatory Note
Purpose and Method of the Synthetic Argument
Meditation I: Man's Need and Quest for God
Meditation II: Anthropomorphism
Meditation III: The Dialectic—Subjective And Objective
Meditation IV: God Is the Absolute Synthesis
Meditation V: Negation and the Finite within the Absolute Synthesis
Meditation VI: Ground Moments in the Notion God
Meditation VII: God As Dialectic
Meditation VIII: God Immanent as Feeling
Meditation IX: God Immanent as the Beautiful
Meditation X: God as Self-Conscious Subject
Meditation XI: The Notion God in Its Concrete Fulness
Meditation XII: On Man
Meditation XIII: Man in Community: The State
Meditation XIV: Negation and the Apparent Limitation of God
Meditation XV: Negation and Evil Generally
Meditation XVI: The Problem of Evil (Continued)
Meditation XVII: The Problem of Evil (Concluded)
Meditation XVIII: Death and Immortality
Appendix
London
Longmans, Green, and Co.
1906

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