Theism as Grounded in Human Nature: Historically and Critically Handled. Being the Burnett Lectures for 1892 and 1893Longmans, Green, 1893 - 469 sider |
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Theism as Grounded in Human Nature - Historically and Critically Handled ... William Leslie Davidson Ingen forhåndsvisning - 2011 |
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Absolute abstract agnostic agnosticism Anaxagoras Anthropomorphism argument Aristotle ascribe attained belief character conceive conception connexion Conscience consciousness Cosmological Argument Criticism Deity Descartes distinct Divine doctrine doubt emotion Epistemology Ethics evil existence experience expression external fact faith feeling finite give Greek Hebrew Hedonistic Paradox Hegel Hence highest human nature Hume idea ideal individual Infinite intellectual intelligence intuition Kant Kant's knowledge Lectures limited living logical man's Mansel Matthew Arnold means mental metaphysical mind monotheism moral Mysticism Neo-platonic Neo-platonists notion object Ontological origin Otto Pfleiderer ourselves pain pantheism perception perfection personality pessimism philo philosophy Plato pleasure polytheism position principle Professor psychological question rational reality reason regarded relation religion religious says secondly sense side simply soul speculative Spencer Spinoza spirit teaching Teleological Argument Theism theistic theology thing thought tion true truth unity universe words worship Xenophanes
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Side 52 - I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: 20.
Side 62 - This therefore being my purpose, to inquire into the original, certainty, and extent of human knowledge, together with the grounds and degrees of belief, opinion, and assent...
Side 17 - He be not that which He seems? Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams? Earth, these solid stars, this weight of body and limb, Are they not sign and symbol of thy division from Him? Dark is the world to thee; thyself art the reason why, For is He not all but thou, that hast power to feel 'I am I'?
Side 161 - For I also am a man set under authority, having under me soldiers ; and I say unto one, Go, and he goeth ; and to another, Come, and he cometh ; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.
Side 99 - The whole frame of nature bespeaks an intelligent author; and no rational enquirer can, after serious reflection, suspend his belief a moment with regard to the primary principles of genuine Theism and Religion.
Side 346 - TITAN ! to whose immortal eyes The sufferings of mortality, Seen in their sad reality, Were not as things that gods despise ; What was thy pity's recompense ? A silent suffering, and intense ; The rock, the vulture, and the chain, All that the proud can feel of pain...
Side 321 - Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world, Like a Colossus ; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves. Men at some time are masters of their fates : The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
Side 123 - Deity as he is, we must conceive him as First Cause, as Absolute, and as Infinite. By the First Cause is meant that which produces all things, and is itself produced of none. By the Absolute is meant that which exists in and by itself, having no necessary relation to any other being.
Side 204 - ... him. This was his anxious care to go out or in at a door or passage, by a certain number of steps from a certain point, or at least so that either his right or his left foot (I am not certain which) should constantly make the first actual movement when he came close to the door or passage.
Side 324 - It is manifest, great part of common language, and of common behaviour over the world, is formed upon supposition of such a moral faculty ; whether called conscience, moral reason, moral sense, or divine reason ; whether considered as a sentiment of the understanding, or as a perception of the heart, or, which seems the truth, as including both.