The Metaphysical Theory of the State : a Criticism
The book The Metaphysical Theory of the State : a Criticism was written by author Hobhouse, L. T. (Leonard Trelawny), 1864-1929 Here you can read free online of The Metaphysical Theory of the State : a Criticism book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Metaphysical Theory of the State : a Criticism a good or bad book?
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This is the element of isolation which, in contradiction to Bosanquet's dictum, is the true core of individuality. This isolation is not merely physical. My body is a part of the objective world to me. I know it by the senses as I know the rose, but the experience, as suffering, is always located in the body, felt within the body, and the physical separateness of my body from another, though not the ground of my isolation, is inseparably connected with it. What in practical philosophy is even m...ore important is that the whole series of my feelings belongs to the thread of suffering. True, I am aware of my feelings and can name and classify them and to that extent they are objects to me, but I always know them as feelings of my own, which I enjoy or suffer as being attributes or states of the subjective continuum that is distinct from the outer world as being in me incom- municably private. When I am said to share another's feeling, that is confused metaphor. The sight of another's pain may arouse pain in me but it is another pain.
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