Locke's Writings and Philosophy Historically Considered: And Vindicated from the Charge of Contributing to the Scepticism of HumeLongman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1855 - 504 páginas |
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ab extra abstract admirable appears argument Aristotle asserts association atheism Bacon Berkeley called certainty chapter Christian common conceive conception concerning connection considered Cudworth David Hume Deity Descartes Dissertation distinct divine doctrine Dugald Stewart edition Encyclopædia Britannica English Epicurus Essay evidence evil existence experience external faculty feelings Gassendi happiness Hartley Hobbes human mind Hume Hume's imagination impressions innate ideas inquiry intellectual intuitions Kant knowledge language laws of thought Leibnitz Locke Locke's logic Malebranche mankind means ment mental metaphysical metaphysicians moral notions objects observation opinion origin pains passage passions peculiar perceive perception phenomena philo philosophy Plato pleasure principles priori propositions question racter reader reason Reid relation religion remarks says scepticism sensation sense sentiments simple ideas soul speaks Spinoza spirit Stewart supposed theory things thinking thought tion Tobias Adami translation Treatise true truth understanding virtue words writers
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Página 494 - It is that which all ages and all countries have made profession of in public; it is that which every man you meet puts on the show of; it is that which the primary and fundamental laws of all civil constitutions, over the face of the earth, make it their business and endeavour to enforce the practice of upon mankind ; namely, justice, veracity, and regard to common good.
Página 45 - We perceive a continual succession of ideas, some are anew excited, others are changed or totally disappear. There is therefore some cause of these ideas whereon they depend, and which produces and changes them. That this cause cannot be any quality or idea or combination of ideas, is clear from the preceding section. It must therefore be a substance; but it has been shewn that there is no corporeal or material substance: it remains therefore that the cause of ideas is an incorporeal active substance...
Página 17 - You say you cannot conceive how Lord Shaftesbury came to be a philosopher in vogue ; I will tell you : first, he was a Lord ; secondly, he was as vain as any of his readers; thirdly, men are very prone to believe what they do not understand; fourthly, they will believe any thing at all, provided they are under no obligation to believe it...
Página 72 - If any impression gives rise to the idea of self, that impression must continue invariably the same, through the whole course of our lives; since self is supposed to exist after that manner. But there is no impression constant and invariable. Pain and pleasure, grief and joy, passions and sensations succeed each other, and never all exist at the same time. It cannot therefore be from any of these impressions, or from any other, that the idea of self is derived; and consequently there is no such idea...
Página 79 - 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 89 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Página 479 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Página 448 - Custom settles habits of thinking in the understanding, as well as of determining in the will, and of motions in the body; all which seems to be but trains of motion in the animal spirits, which once set a-going, continue in the same steps they have been used to: which, by often treading, are worn into a smooth path, and the motion in it becomes easy, and as it were natural.
Página 58 - We should propose to ourselves nobler views, namely, to recreate and exalt the mind with a prospect of the beauty, order, extent, and variety of natural things: hence, by proper inferences, to enlarge our notions of the grandeur, wisdom, and beneficence of the Creator...
Página 248 - No proposition can be said to be in the mind which it was never yet conscious of. For if any one may, then, by the same reason, all propositions that are true, and the mind is capable...