This is a recording of Bernard Bosanquet's 1913 Adamson Lecture of the same name. In the lecture, Bosanquet critically examines the New Realism's conception of Mind. Dissatisfied with the New Realism's analysis of Mind, Bosanquet goes on to argue for his own Idealistic conception of Mind.

"Speaking of fact as I find it, I should compare my consciousness to an atmosphere, not to a thing at all. Its nature is to include. The nature of its objects is to be included. When I came into this hall, out of the smaller room in which we met, the circumference of my mind seemed to expand. The limits of my consciousness became, at any rate, not narrower than the walls of this chamber. From the beginning, then, the analogy of two objects confronting one another seems to me inapplicable. I never seem to think in the form, "my mind is here, and the tree is there." Mind takes itself ab initio as a world, not as an object in a world....The kind of observation this suggests to me is that ab initio one kind of thing is a whole, and another is a fragment. A mind is a whole, that is in its nature and intent; an object is a fragment." (pg. 27-28)

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