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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... Sense § 4. The Properties of Bodies § 5. Explanation and Description in Science § 6. Conditions of Scientific Description . § 7. Illustrations of Scientific Method . Galileo's Conception of Acceleration . . § 8. The Conception of Mass ...
... Sense § 4. The Properties of Bodies § 5. Explanation and Description in Science § 6. Conditions of Scientific Description . § 7. Illustrations of Scientific Method . Galileo's Conception of Acceleration . . § 8. The Conception of Mass ...
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... sense in which faith represents a real force , " says our author , " whose convictions are such as are most favorable to energetic action , and is freest from the doubts which paralyze the will in the great moments of life . He must ...
... sense in which faith represents a real force , " says our author , " whose convictions are such as are most favorable to energetic action , and is freest from the doubts which paralyze the will in the great moments of life . He must ...
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... sense , of technical skill , and of religious piety . Common sense consists of the manifold things that can be taken for granted for the purposes of everyday life . Common sense must be true to be useful ; but it would still not be ...
... sense , of technical skill , and of religious piety . Common sense consists of the manifold things that can be taken for granted for the purposes of everyday life . Common sense must be true to be useful ; but it would still not be ...
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... sense and mysti- cal ecstasy , the outer manner and the inner propensity , in all men different and yet in all alike , do but embroider and enact one theme , the circle is closed and the strength of man made perfect . And such unanimity ...
... sense and mysti- cal ecstasy , the outer manner and the inner propensity , in all men different and yet in all alike , do but embroider and enact one theme , the circle is closed and the strength of man made perfect . And such unanimity ...
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... sense been so comprehensive and so highly unified as it was in Galileo's day . That synopsis of heaven and earth which was the theme of Dante's Divine Comedy , and the fundamental thesis of St. Thomas's Summa Theologiae , was not an ...
... sense been so comprehensive and so highly unified as it was in Galileo's day . That synopsis of heaven and earth which was the theme of Dante's Divine Comedy , and the fundamental thesis of St. Thomas's Summa Theologiae , was not an ...
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absolute absolute idealism abstract action activity agnosticism analysis assertion belief Bergson Berkeley bio-centric body character characteristic cognitive complex concepts consciousness construed critical critique defined Descartes difference elements empirical Empiricism energy environment essentially ethical existence experience external F. C. S. Schiller F. H. Bradley fact formula function ground H. H. Joachim Hegel human Hume hypothesis idea idealism idealistic independent individual intellectual interest James Kant knower knowl matter Meaning of Truth mechanical mental metaphysics method mind monism moral motion motive nature necessary object objective idealism observation passim perception philosophy physical Plato Pluralistic Universe possible pragmatism pragmatist present principle proved question realism reality regarded relation religion religious romanticism scientific Scientific Methods sense simply space Spinoza spirit substance suppose teleological temporal theoretical things thought tion trans true tulip unity verified whole words
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Page 4 - 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 343 - ... 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 125 - ... 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 342 - ... 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 367 - Disregarding the over-beliefs, and confining ourselves to what is common and generic, we have in the fact that the conscious person is continuous with a wider self through which saving experiences come...
Page 302 - 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 240 - 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 366 - 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 351 - 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 163 - 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.