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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... Theoretical Motive in Science . §3 . Religion and the Motive of Belief · §4 . The Confusion of the Philosophical Motive . The ' Place of a Purely Theoretical Philosophy 5. The Subordination of Science to Ethics and Religion in Ancient ...
... Theoretical Motive in Science . §3 . Religion and the Motive of Belief · §4 . The Confusion of the Philosophical Motive . The ' Place of a Purely Theoretical Philosophy 5. The Subordination of Science to Ethics and Religion in Ancient ...
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... theoretical philosophy has never as yet succeeded in developing a technique of its own . The terms of philo- sophical research and speculation are largely the terms of religious belief ; so that the layman too readily identifies the ...
... theoretical philosophy has never as yet succeeded in developing a technique of its own . The terms of philo- sophical research and speculation are largely the terms of religious belief ; so that the layman too readily identifies the ...
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... theoretical mind held to those standards of proportionateness which obtain in life . The scientist is not infrequently likened to James's " myopic ant , " who tumbles into every microscopic crack and fissure , and never suspects that a ...
... theoretical mind held to those standards of proportionateness which obtain in life . The scientist is not infrequently likened to James's " myopic ant , " who tumbles into every microscopic crack and fissure , and never suspects that a ...
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... theoretical truth . The difference lay rather in the relative strength of the two motives . The officers of the church were in a position of responsibility ; Galileo , in the quiet and isola- tion of the Belvedere , could free his mind ...
... theoretical truth . The difference lay rather in the relative strength of the two motives . The officers of the church were in a position of responsibility ; Galileo , in the quiet and isola- tion of the Belvedere , could free his mind ...
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... theoretical grounds , provided that society could be pro- tected from the premature attempt to put such ideas into practice . Society believes , the scientist affirms ; they do so for different motives , and with different values at ...
... theoretical grounds , provided that society could be pro- tected from the premature attempt to put such ideas into practice . Society believes , the scientist affirms ; they do so for different motives , and with different values at ...
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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.