A History of Modern Philosophy: (From the Renaissance to the Present)A. C. McClurg, 1892 - 372 páginas |
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Página 42
... will ; and since the cause must contain at least as much as its effect , power , knowledge , and will belong to being as such , and not The attributes of merely partially as to us , but 42 A HISTORY Of modern phILOSOPHY .
... will ; and since the cause must contain at least as much as its effect , power , knowledge , and will belong to being as such , and not The attributes of merely partially as to us , but 42 A HISTORY Of modern phILOSOPHY .
Página 56
... cause of war is found only in injury to rights , and in the denial of the being and providence of God : even a right of taking up arms to recover stolen liberty is inadmissible . War is to be avoided by all pos- sible means . § 42 ...
... cause of war is found only in injury to rights , and in the denial of the being and providence of God : even a right of taking up arms to recover stolen liberty is inadmissible . War is to be avoided by all pos- sible means . § 42 ...
Página 66
... causes , " and the " production of effects : " it is either speculative or operative , science or prudence . The two parts have a natural relation to one another , since there is an “ intercourse between causes and effects ...
... causes , " and the " production of effects : " it is either speculative or operative , science or prudence . The two parts have a natural relation to one another , since there is an “ intercourse between causes and effects ...
Página 67
... cause the " subtle intermixture of air and water ; " but this account of whiteness is not an account of its essen- tial nature or formal cause . Final causes with which the second part of metaphysics is occupied - have no place whatever ...
... cause the " subtle intermixture of air and water ; " but this account of whiteness is not an account of its essen- tial nature or formal cause . Final causes with which the second part of metaphysics is occupied - have no place whatever ...
Página 74
... cause , to exclude from investigation all natures not always found in con- junction with the given nature , or not found to increase or decrease when the nature increases or decreases . This process of exclusion is the foundation , but ...
... cause , to exclude from investigation all natures not always found in con- junction with the given nature , or not found to increase or decrease when the nature increases or decreases . This process of exclusion is the foundation , but ...
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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...