ABSTRACT

THE ETERNAL PERFECTION OF THE ABSOLUTE AND THE TEMPORAL PROCESS

W E have shown in the previous chapter that there is implied in every judgment an inexplicable metaphysical process. In some judgments a temporal process also may be implied. But neither process can get adequate recognition in judgment. So we can conclude that any significant process cannot find a place in the province of logic. It is no use to say that there is time in the Absolute. For admitting for the sake of argument that there is time in it, if the Absolute is a system of ideal contents lifted out of time, time may be one of them, but to no purpose, as it cannot have any influence on them. The difficulty is due to the logical conception of the Absolute.