A History of Modern Philosophy: (From the Renaissance to the Present)A. C. McClurg, 1892 |
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A. C. McCLURG absolute abstract action activity æther animal beauty become cause Christian Hermann Weisse cognition conceived conception consciousness constitutes corresponding Deontology determined distinction divine doctrine empiricism Encyclopædia Britannica Erdmann essence ethical evolution existence external fact faculty feeling Fichte finite force freedom habilitated Hegel highest human idea ideal identity individual infinite inner intelligence intuition judgment Kant Kantian knowledge logical Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach matter ment merely metaphysics mind moral motion Natural Theology ness Noack ontology organic origin perception perfection personality phenomena philosophy of nature positive possible principle privat-docent professor psychology pure reality realization reason reflection regards relation religion result Schelling Schopenhauer sciousness self-consciousness sensation sense society soul space spirit subject and object sublated substance syllogism theory things thought tion truth Ueber Uncon Unconscious union unity universal University of Jena virtue whole
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Página 246 - 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 238 - 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 284 - has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other...
Página 248 - is a definite combination of heterogeneous changes, both simultaneous and successive, in correspondence with external coexistences and sequences.
Página 233 - 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 231 - ... 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 280 - 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 234 - 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.