CHRISTOFFER See also:

• JACOB
• JACOB, JOHN (1812-1858)

JACOB See also:

• CHRISTOFFER JACOB BOSTROM (1797-1866)

BOSTROM (1797-1866)  , See also:

• SWEDISH

Swedish philosopher, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Pita, and studied at See also:

• UPSALA, or UPPSALA

Upsala, where from 1840 to 1863 he was See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of See also:

• PRACTICAL

practical See also:

• PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

philosophy . His philosophy, as he himself described it, is a thoroughgoing rational See also:

• IDEALISM (from Gr. i5Ea, archetype or model, through been urged of the truth of its point of view is the persistency Fr. idealisme)

idealism founded on the principle that the only true reality is spiritual . See also:

• GOD

God is See also:

• INFINITE (from Lat. in, not, finis, end or limit; cf. findere, to deave)

Infinite Spirit in whom all existence is contained, and is outside the limitations of See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time and space . Thus See also:

• BOSTROM, CHRISTOFFER JACOB (1797-1866)

Bostrom protests not only against See also:

• EMPIRICISM (from Gr. Eµrretpor, skilled in, from sreipa, experiment)

empiricism but also against those doctrines of See also:

• CHRISTIAN
• CHRISTIAN, WILLIAM (1608-1663)

Christian See also:

• THEOLOGY

theology which seemed to him to picture God as something less than Pure Spirit . In See also:

• ETHICS
• ETHICS, SHAFTESBURY, HOBBES

ethics the highest aim is the direction of actions by See also:

• REASON (Lat. ratio, through French raison)

reason in See also:

• HARMONY (Gr. dpµovia, a concord of musical sounds, dpA'ew to join; &plan midi (sc. TeXvil)

harmony with the Divine; so the See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state, like the individual, exists solely in God, and in its most perfect See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form consists in the harmonious obedience of all its members to a constitutional monarch; the perfection of mankind as a whole is to be sought in a rational orderly See also:

• SYSTEM

system of such states in obedience to Universal Reason . This system differs from See also:

• PLATONISM

Platonism in that the " ideas " of God are not archetypal abstractions but See also:

• CONCRETE
• CONCRETE (Lat. concretes, participle of concrescere, to grow together)

concrete personalities . Bostrom's writings were edited by H . Edfeldt (2 vols., Upsala, 1883) . For his school see See also:

• SWEDEN
• SWEDEN [Sverige]
• SWEDEN, NORWAY AND

SWEDEN: Literature; also H . See also:

• HOFFDING, HARALD (1843– )

Hoffding, Filosofien i Sverig (See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German trans. in Philos . Monatsheften, 1879), and See also:

• HISTORY

History of Mod . Philos .

(Eng. trans., 190o), p . 284; R . Falckenberg, Hist. of Phil . (Eng. trans., 1895) ; A . Nyblaeus, Om den Bostromske filosofien (See also:

• LUND
• LUND, TROELS FREDERIK (1840- )

Lund, 1883), and Karakteristik of den Bostromska filosofien (Lund, 1892) .