By Schubert Ogden
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I have become accustomed to distinguishing between "the structure of God \[or ultimate reality\] in itself" and "the meaning of God \[or ultimate reality\] for us." But one difficulty with doing this is that it is not simply the utterly abstract metaphysical structure of God (or ultimate reality) of which the meaning of God (or of ultimate reality) for us is the meaning; it is rather the whole concrete being of God (or of ultimate reality), which, of course, includes its abstract structure. I have become accustomed to distinguishing between "the structure of God \[or ultimate reality\] in itself" and "the meaning of God \[or ultimate reality\] for us." But one difficulty with doing this is that it is not simply the utterly abstract metaphysical structure of God (or ultimate reality) of which the meaning of God (or of ultimate reality) for us is the meaning; it is rather the whole concrete being of God (or of ultimate reality), which, of course, includes its abstract structure. |
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