 The very title of The Meeting of Extremes in Contemporary Philosophy (1921) reveals Bosanquet’s conviction that, despite the apparently radical differences separating them, there is a convergence both in aim and in result of the investigations of the different dominant philosophical schools —for example, on such matters as the reality of time, positive development in ethics, and human progress. Bosanquet notes that, although there is a clear disagreement among critical realists and absolutists concerning the nature of ‘the real’, as each seeks a complete account, it is led to positions that are characteristic of its ‘opponent’. Bosanquet’s own “speculative philosophy”—based, he maintains, on careful analysis of experience—complements both of the preceding approaches. Bosanquet argued that, with a more reasoned understanding of progress and a correct account of the nature of ‘individuality’ and the ‘unity’ of reality (where mind and its objects are seen together in a single context), the absurdities of the extremes of idealism and realism can be avoided, and the opposition between them can be overcome. 