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BOSTROM, CHRISTOFFER JACOB (1797-1866)

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BOSTROM, CHRISTOFFER See also:JACOB (1797-1866) , See also:Swedish philosopher, was See also:born at Pita, and studied at See also:Upsala, where from 1840 to 1863 he was See also:professor of See also:practical See also:philosophy. His philosophy, as he himself described it, is a thoroughgoing rational See also:idealism founded on the principle that the only true reality is spiritual. See also:God is See also:Infinite Spirit in whom all existence is contained, and is outside the limitations of See also:time and space. Thus Bostrom protests not only against See also:empiricism but also against those doctrines of See also:Christian See also:theology which seemed to him to picture God as something less than Pure Spirit. In See also:ethics the highest aim is the direction of actions by See also:reason in See also:harmony with the Divine; so the See also:state, like the individual, exists solely in God, and in its most perfect See also:form consists in the harmonious obedience of all its members to a constitutional monarch; the perfection of mankind as a whole is to be sought in a rational orderly See also:system of such states in obedience to Universal Reason. This system differs from See also:Platonism in that the " ideas " of God are not archetypal abstractions but See also:concrete personalities. Bostrom's writings were edited by H. Edfeldt (2 vols., Upsala, 1883). For his school see See also:SWEDEN: Literature; also H. See also:Hoffding, Filosofien i Sverig (See also:German trans. in Philos. Monatsheften, 1879), and See also:History of Mod. Philos.

(Eng. trans., 190o), p. 284; R. Falckenberg, Hist. of Phil. (Eng. trans., 1895) ; A. Nyblaeus, Om den Bostromske filosofien (See also:

Lund, 1883), and Karakteristik of den Bostromska filosofien (Lund, 1892).

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