Philosophy of Theism: Being the Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Edinburgh in 1895-96, Second Series |
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... ethical personality and environment , without his own leave too , by the bare fact of his existing under moral conditions . The other subject is the alternative of evanescence or permanence as char- acteristic of human persons . Do they ...
... ethical personality and environment , without his own leave too , by the bare fact of his existing under moral conditions . The other subject is the alternative of evanescence or permanence as char- acteristic of human persons . Do they ...
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... ethical pos- tulates that constitute theism . these three reasonable changing universe of reality ? The spirit of the time asks which of these three atti- Which of tudes reason justifies as the final interpretation of life . is the most ...
... ethical pos- tulates that constitute theism . these three reasonable changing universe of reality ? The spirit of the time asks which of these three atti- Which of tudes reason justifies as the final interpretation of life . is the most ...
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... ethical development , with its highest and absolute form in Christianity . The modes of the first appearance of religion in the individual or in the race , in the crude forms of fetichism and polytheism , and the inferior conceptions of ...
... ethical development , with its highest and absolute form in Christianity . The modes of the first appearance of religion in the individual or in the race , in the crude forms of fetichism and polytheism , and the inferior conceptions of ...
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... ethical and spiritual constitution of the universal real- ity , " I assume a something , the proof of which no man can give to another , yet every man may find for him- self . If any man assert that he cannot find it , I am bound to ...
... ethical and spiritual constitution of the universal real- ity , " I assume a something , the proof of which no man can give to another , yet every man may find for him- self . If any man assert that he cannot find it , I am bound to ...
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... ethically sceptical conception of the universe , I find myself becoming scientifically and practically par- alysed . Intellectual system in the universe disappears in the dissolution of moral faith in it , with the con- sequent ...
... ethically sceptical conception of the universe , I find myself becoming scientifically and practically par- alysed . Intellectual system in the universe disappears in the dissolution of moral faith in it , with the con- sequent ...
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