McTaggart : John McTaggart Ellis (1866-1925), British Hegelian philosopher.
... of which it can know nothing, starting to speak of the Ineffable, Page 367 think of the Unthinkable, comprehend the Incommunicable. Comments on Thoughts of J. M. E. McTaggart I have heard of McTaggart as a philosopher but am totally unacquainted with his thought and his writings, so it is a little difficult for me to answer you with any certitude. Isolated thoughts or sentences may... inadequacy of the method of intellectual philosophy, its fixation to the word and idea, while to the complete mystic word and idea are useful symbols only or significative flashlights) that kept McTaggart, as it keeps many, from the unfolding of the mystic within him? If the reviewer is right, that would be why he is abstract and dry, while what is beautiful and moving in his thought might be some... not always) on the nature of the cause or object. For if the object of love is trivial in the sense of his being an inadequate instrument for the dynamic realisation of the sense of oneness which McTaggart says is the essence of love, then love is likely to be baulked of its fulfilment. Unless, of course, it is satisfied with existing, with spending itself in its own fundamental way on the loved without ...
... were no beastly publications then. (Dilip's note:) I had sent him what you wrote on McTaggart 50 etc. suggesting if that were suitable, well you might— qui sait [who knows]—permit. But now—qu'en dites-vous [what do you say] ? An. emphatic no—toujours [always] ? What on earth made you send McTaggart? He is after bigger fish than that. (Dilip's note:) If you want a volley of questions... of a specific contribution from him for purposes of this volume. You are possibly aware that for the volume on Contemporary British Philosophy, men like Bossanquet, Bertrand Russell Haldane and McTaggart, among others, made their contributions. The volume on Contemporary Indian Philosophy will not be worth the name without a statement from Sri Aurobindo. I feel that he will realise the enormous importance ...
... 89. 32. Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics, Vol. IX. 33. Quoted in W.R. Inge, Christian Mysticism, p. 339. 34. The Wisdom of India, p. 17. 35. See McTaggart, Philosophical Studies, p. 47. Cf. Alfred Noyes: Man is himself the key to all he seeks. He is not exiled from this majesty, but is himself a part of it. To know himself, and read this... mystical scriptures are indeed little more than musical compositions." (Varieties of Religious Experience, pp. 420-1). 89. In his essay on "The Relation of Time and Eternity', J. McT Ellis McTaggart gives twenty-eight definitions of Time and Eternity! (Philosophical Studies, pp. 132-5). 90. Countries of the Mind, Second Series, p. 47. 91. ibid., p. 59. ...
... begging the question whether mental phenomena can be caused by physical phenomena. But if a reasoned belief is only seemingly reasoned, we knock all significance out of logical truth. That is what McTaggart bases his argument on, for in that case materialism which itself purports to be a reasoned belief can be logically neither true nor false or is just as likely to be false as true, being merely an ...
... Aurobindo is sometimes doubtful, vague, uncertain and unable to give his final opinion on certain subjects in authoritative words? How am I to account for sentences like: I am totally unacquainted with McTaggart's thought and his writings; so it is a little difficult for me to answer you with any certainty' or 'I don't quite seize what is his conception of the Absolute'? If Sri Aurobindo represents the Divine... achieved by others. Also, he accepts limitations in the domain of brain-knowledge — he does not know in the outer mind's manner all the details of what is written or done: he has to read McTaggart's books to ascertain precisely what that thinker is driving at and he has to read newspapers to get informed of events in the world at large or even in Pondicherry, though he is never misled by false ...
... nature, philosophical systems or statements may prove too arid or too severely logical for poetical transplantation. Middleton Murry, for example, takes Sir Henry Newbolt to task for thinking that McTaggart's philosophy of Time and Eternity 89 could provide a future poet with an inspiring faith to enable him to give solace and encouragement to ailing humanity, and declares that philosophy can do no such ...
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