Christian Thomas Kohl The Metaphysical Foundations of Buddhism and Modern Science
Christian Thomas Kohl The Metaphysical Foundations of Buddhism and Modern Science
Christian Thomas Kohl The Metaphysical Foundations of Buddhism and Modern Science
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together for common ends. Such unity is brought about, not so much by<br />
community <strong>of</strong> bare ideas as by community <strong>of</strong> the feelings by which ideas<br />
are 'emotionalized' <strong>and</strong> become beliefs <strong>and</strong> motives."<br />
<strong>The</strong> conventionalized abstractions prevalent in epistemological theory are<br />
very far from the concrete facts <strong>of</strong> experience. <strong>The</strong> word 'feeling' has<br />
the merit <strong>of</strong> preserving this double significance <strong>of</strong> subjective form <strong>and</strong><br />
<strong>of</strong> the apprehension <strong>of</strong> an object. It avoids the disjecta membra provided<br />
by abstraction. [<strong>The</strong> genetic description <strong>of</strong> the process <strong>of</strong><br />
'emotionalization' is considered in my 'Symbolism, Its Meaning <strong>and</strong><br />
Effect' <strong>and</strong> also in Process <strong>and</strong> Reality Pt. II, Ch. VIII <strong>and</strong> throughout<br />
Pt. III.]<br />
Section XII. Thus an occasion <strong>of</strong> human experience is one illustration <strong>of</strong><br />
the required doctrine <strong>of</strong> connectedness.<br />
Bradley's authority can be quoted in support. He writes: [Loc. cit., p. 175]<br />
"At every moment my stage <strong>of</strong> experience, whatever else it is, is a whole<br />
<strong>of</strong> which I am immediately aware. It is an experienced 'non-relational'<br />
unity <strong>of</strong> many in one." Here Bradley by 'non-relational' apparently means<br />
that experience is not a relation <strong>of</strong> an experient to something external to<br />
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