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He seems to have been studying the Principia Ethica of Dr G. E. Moore early this year; and also the philosophy of Bergson. Writing on the latter in answer to a letter from Dr C. W. Saleeby on the subject he states:
I suppose I may think that you are more or less a disciple of his, or fellow-philosopher with him. Therefore you may be rather shocked at some views I hold about his teaching—or did hold, anyhow. His theories are much pleasanter ones than those they contest, and i for one would gladly believe them; but I cannot help feeling all the time that his is rather an imaginative and poetical mind than a reasoner’s, and that for his charming and attractive assertions he does not adduce any proofs whatever. His use of the word “creation” seems to me loose and vague. Then as to conduct: I fail to see how, if it is not mechanism, it can be other than caprice, though he denies it. Yet I quite agree with him in regarding finalism as an erroneous doctrine. He says however that Mechanism and Finalism are only external views of our conduct—“Our conduct extends between them, and slips much further”. Well it may, but he nowhere shows that it does.
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Hardy, T. (1984). War Efforts, Deaths of Relatives, and “Moments of Vision”. In: Millgate, M. (eds) The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10117-7_33
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