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And he will see how, in order to work, and to work efficaciously and morally, there is no need of either of these two conflicting certainties, either that of faith or that of reason, and how still less is there any need this never under any circumstances to shirk the problem of the immortality of the soul, or to distort it idealistically that is to say, hypocritically.
It is an hypothesis that functions retrospectively only, not prospectively. That, whatever it may be, will have been in point of fact the sort of world which the absolute was pleased to offer to itself as a spectacle. Again, the absolute is always represented idealistically, as the all-knower.
So in this case British idealists, in the act of defining knowledge idealistically, as the presence to consciousness of its own phenomena, never really ceased to assume transcendent knowledge of a self-existing world, social and psychological, if not material: and they continued scrupulously to readjust their ideas to those dark facts, often more faithfully than the avowed positivists or scientific psychologists.
Thus the dislocation of concepts, which is perceptible in Spinoza's ethics, repeats itself in his politics. In a similar way "Spinoza conceives the starting point of the state naturalistically, its culmination idealistically." Cf.
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