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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... physical torture . For both must have felt the con- flict between loyalty to the existing order and assent to theoretical truth . The difference lay rather in the relative strength of the two motives . The officers of the church were in ...
... physical torture . For both must have felt the con- flict between loyalty to the existing order and assent to theoretical truth . The difference lay rather in the relative strength of the two motives . The officers of the church were in ...
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... Physical science has to do with particular inter- relations and rearrangements among facts of nature ; relig- ion has to do with the general character of nature as a whole , or with whatever may lie beyond nature and still belong to the ...
... Physical science has to do with particular inter- relations and rearrangements among facts of nature ; relig- ion has to do with the general character of nature as a whole , or with whatever may lie beyond nature and still belong to the ...
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... physical substance has certain distinguishing prop- erties by virtue of which it is either food or poison ; and celestial bodies compose certain configurations by virtue of which man feels the light of day or the darkness of night , the ...
... physical substance has certain distinguishing prop- erties by virtue of which it is either food or poison ; and celestial bodies compose certain configurations by virtue of which man feels the light of day or the darkness of night , the ...
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... physical sciences , the reason was left in posses- sion of the necessary and valid ideal of the ' Unconditioned ' ; while God , Freedom , and Immortality , the objects of religion , found their ground in the moral will . Although they ...
... physical sciences , the reason was left in posses- sion of the necessary and valid ideal of the ' Unconditioned ' ; while God , Freedom , and Immortality , the objects of religion , found their ground in the moral will . Although they ...
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... physical fact nor the validity of the ideal of the absolute . Their differences are scarcely less striking than their agreement , and may in the end drive them far apart . Pragmatism is primarily concerned to dispute the monistic and ...
... physical fact nor the validity of the ideal of the absolute . Their differences are scarcely less striking than their agreement , and may in the end drive them far apart . Pragmatism is primarily concerned to dispute the monistic and ...
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