ABSTRACT

In this chapter, the main lines of Bradley's argument is traced and shows that it is based on the notion of the concrete universal and the theory of rational activity. Bradley says that the end or purpose in morality is self-realization. This section concludes with a brief statement of Bradley's own criticism of his revised theory of morality. It says that the activity of self-realization, cannot be identified with morality. The rational activity of self-realization must be something more than merely morality. It must, that is to say, having exposed the inherent defect of morality as such, go on to a revised theory of the rational activity of self-realization in which the inherent defect of morality as such, is shown to be overcome. This, is believed to be accomplished, from the facts of ordinary religious experience, that the inherent defect of morality is made good in religion, that religion in principle provides an all-embracing sphere for the rational activity of self-realization.