A History of Modern Philosophy: (From the Renaissance to the Present)A. C. McClurg, 1892 - 372 páginas |
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... constitutes the being of everything . Man is free in will , though limited in act . He is truly himself when he wills God : otherwise he is nothing . All men are one man . In every man both Adam and Christ exist , and redemption is not ...
... constitutes the being of everything . Man is free in will , though limited in act . He is truly himself when he wills God : otherwise he is nothing . All men are one man . In every man both Adam and Christ exist , and redemption is not ...
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... constitutes his essence . Man attains to full consciousness in his seeking , by degrees . Until he distinguishes " differences of time , affirmation , negation , and contradiction in speech , " he is on a level with the lower animals ...
... constitutes his essence . Man attains to full consciousness in his seeking , by degrees . Until he distinguishes " differences of time , affirmation , negation , and contradiction in speech , " he is on a level with the lower animals ...
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... constituting syllogisms are as yet vague and false from overhastiness of induction ; and it proceeds regularly and gradually from one axiom to another , so that the most general are now reached only last . As to start- ing - point , the ...
... constituting syllogisms are as yet vague and false from overhastiness of induction ; and it proceeds regularly and gradually from one axiom to another , so that the most general are now reached only last . As to start- ing - point , the ...
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... constitutes First Philosophy ( philosophia prima ) . All definitions or indications or suggestions of primary notions are expres- sions of abstract notions of things perceived by sense ; all knowledge takes its rise in sense . But sense ...
... constitutes First Philosophy ( philosophia prima ) . All definitions or indications or suggestions of primary notions are expres- sions of abstract notions of things perceived by sense ; all knowledge takes its rise in sense . But sense ...
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... constitute " mental discourse . " The power of conjoining ideas other- wise than they are conjoined in mere experience , and of giving them a definite and fixed succession , is reason . In the fixing of the succession of ideas language ...
... constitute " mental discourse . " The power of conjoining ideas other- wise than they are conjoined in mere experience , and of giving them a definite and fixed succession , is reason . In the fixing of the succession of ideas language ...
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Página 156 - ... 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 59 - 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 186 - 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 193 - 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 198 - 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 196 - 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 144 - 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...
Página 149 - 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 139 - 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 142 - So that if any one will examine himself concerning his notion of pure substance in general, he will find he has no other idea of it at all, but only a supposition of he knows not what support of such qualities, which are capable of producing simple ideas in us; which qualities are commonly called accidents.