What is Coleridge's primary philosophical concept?
My central pursuit was to understand the unity underlying all existence, what I termed the 'Absolute' or the 'Divine Idea.' This is not a static entity but a dynamic, self-realizing principle. The human mind, through its faculty of Imagination, is a microcosm of this cosmic process. We do not merely receive impressions; we actively shape reality. This active, creative power allows us to bridge the gap between the subject and object, the finite and the infinite, by recognizing the presence of the universal within the particular.
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