The importance of subjectivity : selected essays in metaphysics and ethics
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The importance of subjectivity : selected essays in metaphysics and ethics
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 2011
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Timothy Sprigge was one of the leading exponents of philosophical idealism in the last fifty years. His scholarly work in the history of modern philosophy focused on Baruch Spinoza, William James, Josiah Royce, George Santayana, F. H. Bradley, Arthur Schopenhauer, Edmund Husserl, and Alfred North Whitehead: this eventually led to the construction of his own original system of metaphysics he called 'panpsychistic absolute idealism'. Idealism, long unfashionable, has
been coming back into favour, and Sprigge's work has found a new readership. This selection of his finest essays ranges widely over metaphysics, ethics, and the history of philosophy: all the themes that he discusses are drawn together in his unique philosophical system, based upon his original
theory of the nature of consciousness.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- PART I: CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE METAPHYSICS OF EXPERIENCE
- 1. Orientations
- 2. What I Believe
- 3. The Privacy of Experience
- 4. Final Causes
- 5. The Importance of Subjectivity: An Inaugural Lecture
- 6. Is Consciousness Mysterious?
- 7. Consciousness
- 8. The Distinctiveness of American Philosophy
- 9. The World of Description and the World of Acquaintance
- PART II: THE METAPHYSICS OF TIME AND THE ABSOLUTE
- 10. The Unreality of Time
- 11. Ideal Immortality
- 12. Bradley and Russell on Relations
- 13. The Self and Its World in Bradley and Husserl
- 14. Absolute Idealism
- 15. Pantheism
- PART III: ETHICS, ANIMAL RIGHTS, AND THE ENVIRONMENT
- 16. The Greatest Happiness Principle
- 17. Is the Esse of Intrinsic Value Percipi? Pleasure, Pain and Value
- 18. Metaphysics, Physicalism and Animal Rights
- 19. Vivisection, Morals and Medicine: Commentary From an Anti-Vivisectionist Philosopher
- 20. Non-Human Rights: An Idealist Perspective
- 21. Are There Intrinsic Values in Nature
- 22. An Idealist's Prayer for the World
- Acknowledgements
- Selected Bibliography of T. L. S. Sprigge
- Index
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