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    F.H. Bradley — Carmelics
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    F.H. Bradley

    F.H. Bradley

    modernBritish Idealism

    1846 – 1924

    Francis Herbert Bradley was a British idealist philosopher and the most influential figure of late 19th-century British Absolute Idealism. His metaphysics argued that reality is a single, unified Absolute, and that relations between things generate contradictions when treated as ultimately real.

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    Notable Achievements

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    Developed Bradley's regress, a foundational argument against the reality of relations

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    Authored Appearance and Reality (1893), the central text of British Absolute Idealism

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    Wrote Ethical Studies (1876), critiquing utilitarianism and defending self-realization ethics

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    Advanced the coherence theory of truth

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    Shaped early analytic philosophy by provoking the anti-idealist reactions of Russell and Moore

    Positions & Arguments(3)

    Philosophy of Language

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    Any theory that explains 'good' as an optative in unasserted contexts would render obviously valid arguments invalid by treating them as equivocal

    Natural Theology

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    We can rationally believe both ourselves and God to be mental in nature from a practical point of view.

    Truth & Knowledge

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    We can rationally believe both ourselves and God to be mental in nature from a practical point of view.

    Consciousness & Mind

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    Lowe's solution to Bradley's regress merely replaces one equally thorny problem with another

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