Present Philosophical Tendencies: A Critical Survey of Naturalism, Idealism, Pragmatism and Realism, Together with a Synopsis of the Philosophy of William James |
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... Kantian Argu- ment 100 § 10. Infinity and Continuity . § 11. The Priority of Consciousness . 12. Science as a Limited Body of Truth 103 105 108 79 888888 82 85 85 PART III IDEALISM CHAPTER VI . THE CARDINAL PRINCIPLE OF X CONTENTS.
... Kantian Argu- ment 100 § 10. Infinity and Continuity . § 11. The Priority of Consciousness . 12. Science as a Limited Body of Truth 103 105 108 79 888888 82 85 85 PART III IDEALISM CHAPTER VI . THE CARDINAL PRINCIPLE OF X CONTENTS.
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... limited and controlled by religious authority . Finally , as a reaction against the established order , there appeared the idea of the Renaissance - an enthusiasm for antiquity , and a desire to reverse the course of history . The ...
... limited and controlled by religious authority . Finally , as a reaction against the established order , there appeared the idea of the Renaissance - an enthusiasm for antiquity , and a desire to reverse the course of history . The ...
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... limited in their significance as the phenomena of nature . " But this defence left out of consideration what was referred to in the charge as the " absurdity " and " heretical " character of the new theory . It was not its contradiction ...
... limited in their significance as the phenomena of nature . " But this defence left out of consideration what was referred to in the charge as the " absurdity " and " heretical " character of the new theory . It was not its contradiction ...
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... limited and tentative than the corresponding belief . And belief , with its greater positiveness , with its daring and its 1 Cf. below , pp . 265-267 , 345-347 , 369-370 . air of finality , will tend to obscure the cautious SCIENCE AND ...
... limited and tentative than the corresponding belief . And belief , with its greater positiveness , with its daring and its 1 Cf. below , pp . 265-267 , 345-347 , 369-370 . air of finality , will tend to obscure the cautious SCIENCE AND ...
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... limited operations of science . § 5. Now it happens that ' matter ' is too well - known in its private capacity to play becomingly the part of Univer- 1 Op . cit . , from the French translation , by Victor Dave , of the seventeenth ...
... limited operations of science . § 5. Now it happens that ' matter ' is too well - known in its private capacity to play becomingly the part of Univer- 1 Op . cit . , from the French translation , by Victor Dave , of the seventeenth ...
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Page 1 - The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes, and secret motions of things ' ; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.
Page 340 - ... accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling can preserve an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system; and that the whole temple of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins...
Page 122 - But, say you, surely there is nothing easier than for me to imagine trees, for instance, in a park, or books existing in a closet, and nobody by to perceive them. I answer, you may so, there is no difficulty in it; but what is all this, I beseech you, more than framing in your mind certain ideas which you call books and trees, and at the same time omitting to frame the idea of any one that may perceive them?
Page 339 - ... Brief and powerless is man's life ; on him and all his race the slow sure doom falls pitiless and dark. Blind to good and evil, reckless of destruction, omnipotent matter rolls on its relentless way; for Man, condemned to-day to lose his dearest, to-morrow himself to pass through the gate of darkness, it remains only to cherish, ere yet the blow falls, the lofty thoughts that ennoble his little day...
Page 299 - As to the first question, we may observe that what we call a mind is nothing but a heap or collection of different perceptions, united together by certain relations, and supposed, though falsely, to be endowed with a perfect simplicity and identity.
Page 237 - Everything you can think of, however vast or inclusive, has on the pluralistic view a genuinely 'external' environment of some sort or amount. Things are 'with' one another in many ways, but nothing includes everything, or dominates over everything. The word 'and' trails along after every sentence.
Page 363 - Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is still theoretically possible; and as the test of belief is willingness to act, one may say that faith is the readiness to act in a cause the prosperous issue of which is not certified to us in advance.
Page 348 - The world experienced (otherwise called the 'field of consciousness') comes at all times with our body as its centre, centre of vision, centre of action, centre of interest. Where the body is is 'here'; when the body acts is 'now'; what the body touches is 'this'; all other things are 'there' and 'then
Page 160 - And so with dialectic ; when a person starts on the discovery of the absolute by the light of reason only, and without any assistance of sense, and perseveres until by pure intelligence he arrives at the perception of the absolute good, he at last finds himself at the end of the intellectual world, as in the case of sight at the end of the visible.
Page 277 - Whenever my introspective glance succeeds in turning round quickly enough to catch one of these manifestations of spontaneity in the act, all it can ever feel distinctly is some bodily process, for the most part taking place within the head.