A History of Modern Philosophy: (From the Renaissance to the Present)A. C. McClurg, 1892 - 372 páginas |
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... mind , above human comprehension : he is pure spirit . The soul , which unites the parts of the body , is pure form : it is immortal . After death , it remains joined to the pure uni- versal matter . The perception of the One in all ...
... mind , above human comprehension : he is pure spirit . The soul , which unites the parts of the body , is pure form : it is immortal . After death , it remains joined to the pure uni- versal matter . The perception of the One in all ...
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... mind even in later life was filled with distempered imaginations . His character and life were eccentric : he was full of the restlessness of his age , and was a sensualist in his habits even in his old age . He is to be credited ...
... mind even in later life was filled with distempered imaginations . His character and life were eccentric : he was full of the restlessness of his age , and was a sensualist in his habits even in his old age . He is to be credited ...
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... mind gifted with high poetico - philosophical insight . The kernel of it is , doubtless , the conception of the unity of opposites , a conception which has played ( and is playing ) a vast rôle in modern spec- ulative thought . as we ...
... mind gifted with high poetico - philosophical insight . The kernel of it is , doubtless , the conception of the unity of opposites , a conception which has played ( and is playing ) a vast rôle in modern spec- ulative thought . as we ...
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... - evident principles are : the greater good is to be chosen before the less ; it profits a man nothing to gain the whole world and lose his own soul ; obey the mind rather than the body ( the highest law 58 A HISTORY OF MODERN PHILOSOPHY .
... - evident principles are : the greater good is to be chosen before the less ; it profits a man nothing to gain the whole world and lose his own soul ; obey the mind rather than the body ( the highest law 58 A HISTORY OF MODERN PHILOSOPHY .
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(From the Renaissance to the Present) Benjamin Chapman Burt. the mind rather than the body ( the highest law of action ) , etc. The marks of the laws of reason are , — likeness to the laws of nature , accessibility to human understand ...
(From the Renaissance to the Present) Benjamin Chapman Burt. the mind rather than the body ( the highest law of action ) , etc. The marks of the laws of reason are , — likeness to the laws of nature , accessibility to human understand ...
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Página 158 - ... 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.
Página 61 - 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...
Página 188 - 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.
Página 195 - 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.
Página 200 - 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.
Página 198 - 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.
Página 151 - 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.
Página 141 - 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.
Página 190 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
Página 146 - For, since consciousness always accompanies thinking, and it is that which makes every one to be what he calls self, and thereby distinguishes himself from all other thinking things, in this alone consists personal identity, ie the sameness of a rational being: and as far as this consciousness can be extended backwards to any past action or thought, so far reaches the identity of that person...