A History of Modern Philosophy: (From the Renaissance to the Present)A. C. McClurg, 1892 - 372 sider |
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Side 16
... sort of " dogmatic slumber , " in which human thought was wrapped up in the idea of a supra - mundane world , an- swering , as it now seems , to fancy and mere feeling , rather than to active sense , healthy understanding , and reason ...
... sort of " dogmatic slumber , " in which human thought was wrapped up in the idea of a supra - mundane world , an- swering , as it now seems , to fancy and mere feeling , rather than to active sense , healthy understanding , and reason ...
Side 59
... sort and manner , yet all with uniform consent admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy . " super- Result . There are in Hooker's conception of law two features of primary importance , to which special attention . may be ...
... sort and manner , yet all with uniform consent admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy . " super- Result . There are in Hooker's conception of law two features of primary importance , to which special attention . may be ...
Side 70
... sort of good is paramount ; active life should take precedence over the contemplative . The " husbandry " which shall procure this fruit of life — the good is culture of the mind , the real problem of Ethics . This depends upon a ...
... sort of good is paramount ; active life should take precedence over the contemplative . The " husbandry " which shall procure this fruit of life — the good is culture of the mind , the real problem of Ethics . This depends upon a ...
Side 89
... sort , how much , in what relation , how , when , where , whence , wherefore ( the categories of Aristotle ) . Of all our faculties the discursive reason is the most exposed to error ; it " confounds the limits of our faculties ...
... sort , how much , in what relation , how , when , where , whence , wherefore ( the categories of Aristotle ) . Of all our faculties the discursive reason is the most exposed to error ; it " confounds the limits of our faculties ...
Side 98
... sort comprising larger particles and com- posing the planets , etc. The motion of matter is in no case produced by action at a distance , but by pushing of portions of matter by others , in particular , by the finest of the ...
... sort comprising larger particles and com- posing the planets , etc. The motion of matter is in no case produced by action at a distance , but by pushing of portions of matter by others , in particular , by the finest of the ...
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Side 156 - ... a state of perfect freedom to order their actions and dispose of their possessions and persons as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave or depending upon the will of any other man.
Side 59 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Side 186 - How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it.
Side 193 - Let us fix our attention out of ourselves as much as possible: Let us chase our imagination to the heavens, or to the utmost limits of the universe; we never really advance a step beyond ourselves, nor can conceive any kind of existence, but those perceptions, which have appear'd in that narrow compass.
Side 198 - Reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.
Side 196 - A cause is an object precedent and contiguous to another, and so united with it that the idea of the one determines the mind to form the idea of the other, and the impression of the one to form a more lively idea of the other.
Side 149 - I suppose, if duly considered and pursued, afford such foundations of our duty and rules of action as might place morality amongst the sciences capable of demonstration: wherein I doubt not but from self-evident propositions, by necessary consequences as incontestable as those in mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out to anyone that will apply himself with the same indifferency and attention to the one as he does to the other of these sciences.
Side 139 - When the understanding is once stored with these simple ideas, it has the power to repeat, compare, and unite them, even to an almost infinite variety, and so can make at pleasure new complex ideas. But it is not in the power of the most exalted wit, or enlarged understanding, by any quickness or variety of thought, to invent or frame one new simple idea in the mind, not taken in by the ways before mentioned : nor can any force of the understanding destroy those that are there.
Side 142 - So that if any one will examine himself concerning his notion of pure substance in general, he will find he has no other idea of it at all, but only a supposition of he knows not what support of such qualities, which are capable of producing simple ideas in us; which qualities are commonly called accidents.
Side 188 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.