The Realm of Ends or Pluralism and Theism

by James Ward

THE REALM OF ENDS
OR
PLURALISM AND THEISM

THE GIFFORD LECTURES
DELIVERED IN THE UNIVERSITY OF St ANDREWS
IN THE YEARS 1907-10

BY

JAMES WARD,

SC.D (CAMB.), HON. LL.D. (EDIN.), HON. D.SC. (OXON.),
FELLOW OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY
AND OF THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES,
PROFESSOR OF MENTAL PHILOSOPHY, CAMBRIDGE

SECOND EDITION

Cambridge:

at the University Press

1912

All tended to mankind,

And man produced, all has its end thus far:

But in completed man begins anew

A tendency to God.

Browning.

Aber die erkannten thatsächlichen Verhältnisse können allein unsere Gedanken nach diesem Mittelpunkte der Welt wenigstens convergiren machen.

Lotze.

Contents

Preface

Part 1: Pluralism

Lecture I: Introductory

Lecture II: The One and the Many

Lecture III: Pluralism

Lecture IV: The Contingency in the World

Lecture V: Evolution as Epigenesis and Equilibration

Lecture VI: The Pluralistic Goal

Lecture VII: The Pluralism of Hegel

Lecture VIII: The Hegelian Unity

Lecture IX: The Limits of Pluralism

Lecture X: The Difficulties of Pluralism

Part 2: Theism

Lecture XI: The Idea of Creation

Lecture XII: The Cosmology of Theism

Lecture XIII: Freedom

Lecture XIV: Freedom and Foreknowledge

Lecture XV: The Problem of Evil and Pessimism

Lecture XVI: The Problem of Evil and Optimism

Lecture XVII: Moral Evil and Moral Order

Lecture XVIII: Theories of a Future Life

Lecture XIX: Faith and Knowledge

Lecture XX: The Realm of Ends

Supplementary Notes