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It has been the purpose of this work to enter into contact with new horizons of thought. The problems of idealism and value philosophy are by no means new to the philosophical stage. But as G. Allport noted some years ago for the field of psychology, the practitioners of this science had thrown the self overboard along with the soul. He was saying that psychology could make little headway in dealing with the more complex human realities until it took seriously the omnipresent factor of “ego involvement.”1 Something along these lines could be said, I believe, for American philosophy.

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