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Absolute Idealism is best represented by Hegel but there is some ambiguity in his position which makes it liable to different interpretations. Hence anything that is said about it here can only be taken as my individual way of regarding it. I interpret it as restatement in more systematic form and with reference to the developments of modern thought of the position that was so brilliantly sketched and in its main features so pro- foundly anticipated by Plato. Thus conceived it is not simply as doctrine of knowledge very far removed from the atti- tude of the New Realists at least as expounded by some of its interpreters. It differs chiefly in its more decided emphasis on the reality of universals in its attempt to arrange these in systematic order and in its conviction that when they are so arranged it becomes apparent that the ultimate interpretation of reality must be spiritual. prev next |