An Historical and Critical View of the Speculative Philosophy of Europe in the Nineteenth Century, Τόμος 1William Pickering, 1846 - 536 σελίδες |
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Abraham Tucker absolute abstract action admit altogether analysis appears argument arise Aristotle attempt axioms belief brain Cartesian causality cause century complete conceptions conclusion Condillac connexion consciousness deontology Descartes direct distinct doctrine elements emotions empiricism error evidence existence experience external fact faculty feelings finite former foundation fundamental give ground Hobbes human knowledge human mind Hume idealism ideas infinite influence intellectual investigation judgment Kant laws laws of thought Leibnitz Locke Locke's logical Malebranche manifested material world matter means mental metaphysical metaphysician method monads moral motives mysticism nature necessarily never notion object observation ontology origin outward perception pheno phenomena philo philosophical scepticism phrenology physical physiology pleasure present principles pure reason question reality regard Reid relation rience scepticism sensation sensationalism sense shew simply speculative philosophy Spinoza spirit subjective subjective idealism tendency term theory things thought tion true truth universe volition whole writings
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Σελίδα 116 - It is evident the mind knows not things immediately, but only by the intervention of the ideas it has of them. Our knowledge therefore is real only so far as there is a conformity between our ideas and the reality of things.
Σελίδα 340 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
Σελίδα 281 - Again ; the mathematical postulate, that " things which are equal to the same are equal to one another," is similar to the form of the syllogism in logic, which unites things agreeing in the middle term.
Σελίδα 174 - It was Mr. Locke that struck the home blow : for Mr. Hobbes's character and base slavish principles in government took off the poison of his philosophy. 'Twas Mr. Locke that struck at all fundamentals, threw all order and virtue out of the world, and made the very ideas of these (which are the same as those of God) unnatural, and without foundation in our minds.
Σελίδα 284 - Universal scepticism involves a contradiction in terms. It is a belief that there can be no belief. It is an attempt of the mind to act without its structure, and by other laws than those to which its nature has subjected its operations. To reason without assenting to the principles on which its reasoning is founded, is not unlike an effort to feel without nerves, or to move without muscles.
Σελίδα 102 - The whole is equal to all its parts:" — what real truth, I beseech you, does it teach us? What more is contained in that maxim, than what the signification of the word totum, or the whole, does of itself import?
Σελίδα 391 - That man is compelled by his original constitution to receive his feelings and his convictions independently of his will. " 3d. That his feelings or his convictions, or both of them united, create the motive to action called the will, which stimulates him to act, and decides his actions.
Σελίδα 81 - Altera a sensu et particularibus advolat ad axiomata maxime generalia, atque ex iis principiis eorumque immota veritate judicat et invenit axiomata media; atque haec via in usu est: altera a sensu et particularibus excitat axiomata, ascendendo continenter et gradatim, ut ultimo loco perveniatur ad maxime generalia ; quae via vera est, sed intentata.
Σελίδα 393 - That the organization of no two human beings is ever precisely similar at birth ; nor can art subsequently form any two individuals, from infancy to maturity, to be precisely similar.
Σελίδα 386 - That man is a compound being, whose character is formed of his constitution or organization at birth, and of the effects of external circumstances upon it, from birth to death ; such original organization and external influences continually acting and reacting each upon the other.