A History of Modern Philosophy: (From the Renaissance to the Present)A. C. McClurg, 1892 - 372 páginas |
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... mathematics are prerequisites to the acquire- ment of the powers of the magician.1 The chief work of Agrippa is entitled " De Occulta Philosophia " ( 1510 ) ; other works are " De Triplici Ratione Cognoscendi Deum , " 1 Noack . " De ...
... mathematics are prerequisites to the acquire- ment of the powers of the magician.1 The chief work of Agrippa is entitled " De Occulta Philosophia " ( 1510 ) ; other works are " De Triplici Ratione Cognoscendi Deum , " 1 Noack . " De ...
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... mathematical and astro- nomical studies , in which he was at least a century beyond his age , having even anticipated Copernicus in important regards . - Works . The chief work of Nicolas is entitled " De docta Ignorantia " ( 1440 ) ...
... mathematical and astro- nomical studies , in which he was at least a century beyond his age , having even anticipated Copernicus in important regards . - Works . The chief work of Nicolas is entitled " De docta Ignorantia " ( 1440 ) ...
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... mathematics at Padua , and the natural sciences at Rome . He conceived a scientific antipathy to Aristotle , and formed a plan of reforming philosophy . Under the auspices of the prince of Naples he founded an academy for the ...
... mathematics at Padua , and the natural sciences at Rome . He conceived a scientific antipathy to Aristotle , and formed a plan of reforming philosophy . Under the auspices of the prince of Naples he founded an academy for the ...
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... mathematics . Intermediate between the real and the formal sciences is metaphysics , treating of being and essence . The starting - point of philosophy is the cer- tainty of the existence of self , which is self - evident and beyond the ...
... mathematics . Intermediate between the real and the formal sciences is metaphysics , treating of being and essence . The starting - point of philosophy is the cer- tainty of the existence of self , which is self - evident and beyond the ...
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... mathematical entities , the abstract temporal , or corporeal , world , and the world of definite time and space . The lower worlds are varied images of the highest of all . All existence is an act of knowledge and will , and nothing is ...
... mathematical entities , the abstract temporal , or corporeal , world , and the world of definite time and space . The lower worlds are varied images of the highest of all . All existence is an act of knowledge and will , and nothing is ...
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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.