The Metaphysical Foundation of Buddhism and Modern Science

prehensionis active via its contribution of its subjective form to the
creative process, but it dismisses its 'object' from the possibility of 22
entering into the datum of the final satisfaction. This final complex
datum will be what Bradley calls "that object that satisfies me". Again I
agree.
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The doctrine of the 'living emotion' which necessarily clothes each
concrete exhibition of the subject-object situation is far older thaniou
Bradley. We find its germ in Plato, who insists that the whole character
is conformed to the adequate knowledge. He implicitly refuses to
abstract the 'living emotion' from the bare intellectual perception, and
thereby identifies virtue with knowledge. The advance in psychology has
added to our conscious discrimination, but it has not altered the fact
that inevitably perception is clothed with emotion.
The historical importance of the doctrine is stated by George Foot
Moore: [In the Prefatory Note to Emotion as the Basis of Civilization, by
J.H. Denison, New York, 1928 (Scibner's): a work of importance.] -
"Civilization develops only where considerable numbers of men work
together for common ends. Such unity is brought about, not so much by
community of bare ideas as by community of the feelings by which ideas
are 'emotionalized' and become beliefs and motives."
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