An Outline of Philosophy With Notes Historical And Critical
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We can therefore understand why Plato maintained that the ideal is the real. The ideal is the real, not because it is the actual, but because it is what ought to be actual. Man recognizes that his true self is the ideal or moral self, not the self that at any time actually is. Hence, secondly, the idea of duty implies an opposition between a law of reason and a law of natural inclination. The law of reason is recognized as that which expresses the true end or destiny of man, the man as he ought... to be ; the law of inclination as that which expresses what man, in so far as he fails to realize the ideal end, actually MORAL PHILOSOPHY. 1 97 is. There is in man an opposition between his desire for the realization of the ideal self, and his desire for the gratification of the lower self, an opposition between the life of spirit and the life of nature. Now, it is of supreme importance to apprehend the true relation of the ideal and the actual self, the life of spirit and the life of nature ; for upon this apprehension mainly depends the character of our ethical theory.
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