benjamin paul blood

Pluriverse: An Essay in the Philosophy of Pluralism

First published 1920 · the first edition (Boston, 1920), without H. M. Kallen's introduction
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Author's Foreword
It was in the year 1860 that there came to me, through the necessary use of anæsthetics, a Revelation or insight of the immemorial Mystery…
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Duplexity
Philosophy, as the science of explanation, naturally assumes the coincidence of the possible and the rational, and as well of the rational…
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Idealism
The word idealism has been so drawled through perfunctory and irresponsible discourse that one must speak by the card if he would not be…
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Monism
Monism, popularly intending the unity of totality, might be defined as obsession of finite limitation—a fate of the planet-born or…
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Cause
Cause, the insatiable Why of human curiosity and interest, is naturally the storm centre of philosophy. What is meant by cause depends…
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Self-Relation
We have seen Kant, ignoring the value of things in themselves, with equal disregard tossing the cause of them to an irresponsible and…
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The Negative
Since we find that the only plausible reason of things is reason as a reason for itself by self-relation—and that this is impossible…
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Ancillary Unity and the Present Tense
It is written that there can be no science of the fleeting. If this is truth it should seem that for us, children of the fleeting time,…
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Jesus and Free Will
Let us hope that we have learned somewhat, even if no more than negatively, from the route that we have gone over. We should have learned…
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The Anæsthetic Revelation
I have made the preceding digest of current philosophy in the hope of familiarizing its mental spectres, and of authenticating if not…
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The Poetical Alphabet
A jury of common-sense men might well be excused for a verdict, over their book oaths, that there is no important sense in what follows…