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Full Idea
God is a subject which is eternally all that the self-conscious subject as developed in time has the possibility of becoming.
Gist of Idea
God is the ideal end of the mature mind's final development
Source
T.H. Green (works [1875]), quoted by John H. Muirhead - The Service of the State I
Book Ref
Muirhead,John H.: 'The Service of the State: T.H. Green' [John Murray 2021], p.17
A Reaction
[Ethics p.197] Reminiscent of Peirce's account of truth, as the ideal end of enquiry. If God is a human ideal, we either limit God, or exaggerate our powers of idealisation.
Related Idea
Idea 14796 Independent truth (if there is any) is the ultimate result of sufficient enquiry [Peirce]