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And in this age of science it is our endeavour fully to establish our claim to our world-self.
Sadhana : the realisation of life Rabindranath Tagore 1901
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The post-kantians make of the witness-condition what is called a concrete universal, an individualized all-witness or world-self, which shall imply in its rational constitution each and all of the other conditions put together, and therefore necessitate each and all of the conditioned experiences.
A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy William James 1876
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The world-self must experience itself as the totality of being, or in Hegel's own words must elevate itself to a "self-comprehending totality," in order to achieve the consciousness of freedom.
LewRockwell.com 2009
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In eschatology the real (spirit, or self) part of man (ego) either rejoices forever as a conscious part of the conscious world-self, or exists immortal in _brahma_ -- imperishable being, conceived as more or less conscious. [
The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Edward Washburn Hopkins 1894
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Why, then, did Hegel's Man-God (also termed by Hegel the "world-self" or "world-spirit" [
LewRockwell.com 2009
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