Imaginative Cognition and Inspired Cognition
GA 209/1921-12-23/p038
·1921-12-23
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Materialism is therefore justified on the one hand, whereas on the other it no longer holds good. Simply to attack materialism betrays a superficial attitude. For what in a positive sense the materialist has to say is warranted. He is at fault only when he would approach man's whole wide conception of the world from one side.
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