VI. THE MUTUAL RELATION OF THE SELF AND

THE NOT-SELF (contiimed). The same results in terms of European philosophies. — The inspiration of Indian thought, ethico-religious : knowledge for the sake of happiness. — That of modern Euro- pean thought, mostly intellectual and epis- temological : knowledge for the sake of know- ledge.— Berkeley's finding : the esse of matter is its percipi. — Hume's rinding : the converse. — Consequent restoration of the problem to the status quo, but on a higher level. — Kant's finding : a mental thing-in-itself projecting ' forms ' and a material thing-in-itself project- ing ' matter,' ' sensations.' — Consequent aggravation of the problem. — Subsequent
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attempts of Fichte and others to unify the two things-in-themselves of Kant. — Schelling's in- ference of the Absolute from the Relative. — Hegel's work. — Its defects. — Fichta's expla- nation of the world-process in terms of the Ego and the Non-Ego. — Its general similarity with the views of Advaita Vedanta : — The determination of the nature of the Ego by the method of adhyaropa-apavada, abscissio infiniti, hypothecation-negation. — The last difficulty. — The need to justify the very fact and nature of change at all, and to combine both change and changelessness in the Abso- lute.— The attempts of the Rosicrucians in this behalf. — The logia, great sentences, of the Veda, as employed by the Advaita Vedanta - 45—83