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The Importance of Being Conscious

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

Edgar Sheffield Brightman
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Extract

Some of the time we are conscious. But we are a very small part of the universe, and consciousness, so it seems, is a very small part of us. Yet that very small part is the starting-point of all knowledge and the field in which all our experience occurs.

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Philosophy , Volume 4 , Issue 16 , October 1929 , pp. 497 - 503
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1929

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References

1 A Philosophy of Ideals (New York: Holt, 1928).Google Scholar