 | Mihai Spariosu - 1997 - 372 oldal
...creating new ideas, because it is a form of philosophical activity. It is the task of the "critical power" to "make an intellectual situation of which the creative power can profitably avail itself." The critical faculty "tends to establish an order of ideas, if not absolutely true, yet true by comparison... | |
 | Marc Redfield - 2003 - 272 oldal
...truth of "the object as in itself it really is," through the process of repeatedly "establish [ing] an order of ideas, if not absolutely true, yet true by comparison with that which it displaces." Yet this narrative of scientific progress runs counter to the monumentalizing imperative of aesthetic... | |
 | Lee Oser - 2007 - 96 oldal
...effects, not with any rule or metaphysic designed to achieve them. Similarly, he values criticism that "tends to establish an order of ideas, if not absolutely true, yet true by comparison with that which it displaces."74 And it is not just the pragmatic basis of Arnold's realism that should be acknowledged.... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1883 - 404 oldal
...words already quoted, " in all branches of knowledge, theology, philosophy, history, art, science, to see the object as in itself it really is." Thus...which it displaces; to make the best ideas prevail. Presently these new ideas reach society, the touch of truth is the touch of life, and there is a stir... | |
 | 1955 - 396 oldal
...begins with the critics. As Matthew Arnold long ago pointed out, their principal function ought to be "to make an intellectual situation of which the creative power can profitably avail itself." Many of them, of course, fail to perform this function, but the best always do, even though the ideas... | |
 | Norman Foerster - 1928 - 304 oldal
...critical spirit is prodigiously fecund.' It is strenuously trying, he says, quoting Matthew Arnold, ' to make an intellectual situation of which the creative power can profitably avail itself'; and this it is 'actually accomplishing,' he declares on his own account, not through its ' actual performances... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1924 - 686 oldal
...business of the critical power to see the object as in itself it really is' ; for by doing so 'it tends to make an intellectual situation of which the creative power can profitably avail itself.' ' Now this may be quite true. But Mr Brooks, in this paper, is interested only in the last half of... | |
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Thus it tends, at last, to make an intellectual situation of which the creative power can profitably avail itself. It tends to establish an order of ideas, if not absolutely true, yet true by comparison with that which it displaces ; to make the best... 
