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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.

J. M. E. McTaggart

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.

J. M. E. McTaggart

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.

J. M. E. McTaggart

Surely death acquires a new and deeper significance when we regard it no longer as a single and unexplained break in an unending life, but as a part of the continuously recurring rhythm of progress-as inevitable, as natural and benevolent as sleep.

J. M. E. McTaggart

J. M. E. McTaggart

J. M. E. McTaggart

Born: September 3, 1866

Died: January 18, 1925 (aged 58)

Bio: John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart, commonly John McTaggart or J. M. E. McTaggart, D.Litt was an idealist metaphysician. For most of his life McTaggart was a fellow and lecturer in philosophy at Trinity College, Cambridge.

Known for:

The nature of existence (1900)
A Commentary on Hegel's Logic (1910)
Studies in Hegelian Cosmology (1901)
Studies in the Hegelian dialectic (1896)
Some Dogmas of Religion (1906)

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