A History of Philosophy; With Especial Reference to the Formation And Development of Its Problems And Conceptions
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Lastly, Augustine's dualism appeared in its complete bald- ness in his conception of history. The realm of God and that of the devil, the Church and the political state, here confronted each other in rigid antithesis. The historical conditions of which this doctrine was the reflex, had become changed completely since Augustine's day. But hitherto the Middle Ages had not only lacked historical conceptions which would have been adapted to correct this doctrine, but scientific thought had been emp...loyed in such a one-sidedly theo- logical and dialectical manner, that ethical and social problems had remained farther outside the horizon of philosophers than had phys- ical problems. And yet at the same time, history was seeing move- ments of such grand dimensions that science also must necessarily take a position with regard to it. If she was able to do this in the second period in a manner completely worthy of the greatness of the subject, she owed her strength for this again to the Aristotelian system, which gave the means into her hand of mastering in thought the great connected structures of political and historical life, of arranging in her metaphysics these forms of the series of develop- ment, and thus of putting into conceptions the mighty import of that which she was living through.
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