A History of Modern Philosophy: (From the Renaissance to the Present)A. C. McClurg, 1892 |
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A. C. McCLURG absolute absolute philosophy abstract action activity æther animal Baader become Berlin cause Christian Hermann Weisse cognition conception concrete consciousness constitutes corresponding determined distinction divine doctrine empiricism Encyclopædia Britannica Erdmann essence ethical evolution existence external fact faculty feeling Fichte finite force freedom habilitated Hegel Hegelian highest human idea ideal identity individual infinite inner intelligence intuition Jena judgment Kant Kantian knowledge law of identity logical losophy matter ment merely metaphysics mind moral motion Naturphilosophie Noack objective spirit ontology organic particular perception person phenomena philosophy of nature pleasure positive principle privat-docent professor psychology pure reality realization reason reflection regards relation religion result Schelling Schopenhauer sciousness self-consciousness self-determining sensation society soul space sphere subject and object sublated substance syllogism theory things thought tion truth Ueber Unconscious union unity universal University of Jena whole
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Página 248 - Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion ; during which the matter passes from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity ; and during •which the retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation.
Página 240 - A Being of great but limited power, how or by what limited we cannot even conjecture; of great, and perhaps unlimited intelligence, but perhaps, also, more narrowly limited than his power: who desires, and pays some regard to, the happiness of his creatures, but who seems to have other motives of action which he cares more for, and who can hardly be supposed to have created the universe for that purpose alone.
Página 286 - has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other...
Página 250 - is a definite combination of heterogeneous changes, both simultaneous and successive, in correspondence with external coexistences and sequences.
Página 235 - Now it is an unquestionable fact that those who are equally acquainted with and equally capable of appreciating and enjoying both, do give a most marked preference to the manner of existence which employs their higher faculties. Few human creatures would consent to be changed into any of the lower animals for a promise of the fullest allowance of a beast's pleasures; no intelligent human being would consent to be a fool, no instructed...
Página 233 - ... with hunger, freezes them with cold, poisons them by the quick or slow venom of her exhalations, and has hundreds of other hideous deaths in reserve, such as the ingenious cruelty of a Nabis or a Domitian never surpassed.
Página 282 - Emerging as the moral motive does but slowly from amidst the political, religious, and social motives, it long participates in that consciousness of subordination to some external agency which is joined with them ; and only as it becomes distinct and predominant does it lose this associated consciousness — only then does the feeling of obligation fade.
Página 236 - Life would be a poor thing, very ill provided with sources of happiness, if there were not this provision of nature, by which things originally indifferent, but conducive to, or otherwise associated with, the satisfaction of our primitive desires, become in themselves sources of pleasure more valuable than the primitive pleasures, both in permanency, in the space of human existence that they are capable of covering, and even in intensity.