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J. M. E. McTaggart Quotes

d. 1925

John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart, commonly John McTaggart or J. M.

Also known as: John McTaggart, John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart

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The really fundamental aspect of the dialectic is not the tendency of the finite category to negate itself but to complete itself.

Studies in the Hegelian Dialectic (1896)

Religion has always, I think, implied a belief in some fundamental harmony, some sort of reconciliation between the claims of our own nature and the facts of the universe.

Some Dogmas of Religion (1906)

On the determinist hypothesis an omnipotent God could have prevented all sin by creating us with better natures and in more favourable surroundings. … Hence we should not be responsible for our sins to God.

Some Dogmas of Religion (1906)

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