H. P. Grice, "Bosanquetiana"

BOSANQUETIANUM IMPLICATUM -- Bosanquet, Bernard (1848–1923) British neo-Hegelian philosopher and aesthetician, born at Alnwick, taught at Oxford (1871–81) and St Andrews (1903–8). Bosanquet claimed that reality or the Absolute is systematic and that truth is comprehensible only within systems of knowledge. He focused in particular on the notion of individuality in the idealist tradition. An individual is a concrete universal or the harmony of differences, and the expression of individuality, through imagination, is beauty. Ultimately, the only real individual is the Absolute itself. In social philosophy, he emphasized the influence of the community upon the individuals and defined freedom as self-mastery. The most important of his many books are: Knowledge and Reality (1885), Logic or the Morphology of Knowledge (1888), History of Aesthetics (1892), The Philosophical Theory of the State (1899), The Principle of Individuality and Value (1912), and Three Lectures on Aesthetics (1915).