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... hold- ing truths traditionally cannot distinguish their friends from their foes . 1 Queen Christina of Sweden , daughter of the great Gustavus Adolphus , had come under the influence of the writings of Descartes . She began a ...
... hold- ing truths traditionally cannot distinguish their friends from their foes . 1 Queen Christina of Sweden , daughter of the great Gustavus Adolphus , had come under the influence of the writings of Descartes . She began a ...
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... hold of Peripateticism , Ramus ( 1515-1572 ) attacked Aristotle in the most violent manner . In Ramus was concentred the spirit of philosophical and literary an- tagonism to the Schoolmen . It was wholly unmodified by judgment or ...
... hold of Peripateticism , Ramus ( 1515-1572 ) attacked Aristotle in the most violent manner . In Ramus was concentred the spirit of philosophical and literary an- tagonism to the Schoolmen . It was wholly unmodified by judgment or ...
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... hold of all that is embodied in the asser- tion of the self by itself . This we shall find to be existence in time in this or that definite act or mode , and a continuous and identical existence through all the varying and successive ...
... hold of all that is embodied in the asser- tion of the self by itself . This we shall find to be existence in time in this or that definite act or mode , and a continuous and identical existence through all the varying and successive ...
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... holds very strongly and definitely in regard to will that it is a faculty " which I experience to be so great , that I am unable to conceive the idea of another that shall be more ample and extended ; so that it is chiefly my Iwill ...
... holds very strongly and definitely in regard to will that it is a faculty " which I experience to be so great , that I am unable to conceive the idea of another that shall be more ample and extended ; so that it is chiefly my Iwill ...
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... hold that the finite consciousness , so far as finite , is either an error or an illusion . On the contrary , it is with him the basis of the very possibility of know- ledge , and the type and warrant of a higher conscious- ness . And ...
... hold that the finite consciousness , so far as finite , is either an error or an illusion . On the contrary , it is with him the basis of the very possibility of know- ledge , and the type and warrant of a higher conscious- ness . And ...
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Page 113 - ... under these forms, and which is now perceived under others. But, to speak precisely, what is it that I imagine when I think of it in this way? Let it be attentively considered, and, retrenching all that does not belong to the wax, let us see what remains. There certainly remains nothing, except something extended, flexible, and movable.
Page 147 - I clearly see that existence can no more be separated from the essence of God than can its having its three angles equal to two right angles be separated from the essence of a [rectilinear] triangle, or the idea of a mountain from the idea of a valley...
Page 148 - ... there is not any less repugnance to our conceiving a God (that is, a Being supremely perfect) to whom existence is lacking (that is to say, to whom a certain perfection is lacking), than to conceive of a mountain which has no valley.
Page 28 - ... consider it, in so far as it relates to practice, as no longer dubious, but manifestly true and certain, since the reason by which our choice has been determined is itself possessed of these qualities. This principle was sufficient thenceforward to rid me of all those repentings and pangs of remorse that usually disturb the consciences of such feeble and uncertain minds as, destitute of any clear and determinate principle of choice, allow themselves one day to adopt a course of action as the...
Page 107 - I too undoubtedly exist, if he is deceiving me; and let him deceive me as much as he can, he will never bring it about that I am nothing so long as I think that I am something. So after considering everything very thoroughly, I must finally conclude that this proposition, I am, I exist, is necessarily true whenever it is put forward by me or conceived in my mind.
Page 120 - ... for, as I have the power of understanding what is called a thing, or a truth, or a thought, it appears to me that I hold this power from no other source than my own nature.
Page 157 - I believed that this body (which by a certain special right I call my own) belonged to me more properly and more strictly than any other; for in fact I could never be separated from it as from other bodies; I experienced in it and on account of it all my appetites and affections, and finally I was touched by the feeling of pain and the titillation of pleasure in its parts, and not in the parts of other bodies which were separated from it. But when I inquired, why, from some...
Page 123 - ... proceed from the less perfect. And this is not only evidently true of those effects which possess actual or formal reality, but also of the ideas in which we consider merely what is termed objective reality.
Page 115 - For what was there in this first perception which was distinct? What was there which might not as well have been perceived by any of the animals? But when I distinguish the wax from its external forms, and when, just as if I had taken from it its vestments, I consider it...
Page 27 - My second maxim was to be as firm and resolute in my actions as I was able, and not to adhere less steadfastly to the most doubtful opinions, when once adopted, than if they had been highly certain...