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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... example , there is more need of emphasizing the motive of belief . We live in a rationalistic age , many of us in a rationalistic fellowship or community , and incline to the party of theory . It is the mark of such partisanship to ...
... example , there is more need of emphasizing the motive of belief . We live in a rationalistic age , many of us in a rationalistic fellowship or community , and incline to the party of theory . It is the mark of such partisanship to ...
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... example of travellers who , when they have lost their way in a forest , ought not to wander from side to side , far less remain in one place , but proceed constantly towards the same side in as straight a line as possible , . . . for in ...
... example of travellers who , when they have lost their way in a forest , ought not to wander from side to side , far less remain in one place , but proceed constantly towards the same side in as straight a line as possible , . . . for in ...
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... example of the method and spirit of disinterested research . Its development has been marked by the purification of its theoretical motive ; until , despite its ulterior usefulness , it is in its own procedure of all human activities ...
... example of the method and spirit of disinterested research . Its development has been marked by the purification of its theoretical motive ; until , despite its ulterior usefulness , it is in its own procedure of all human activities ...
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... example of theory : and religion , the interest in the ultimate causes of things , the unique ex- ample of belief . § 4. It is clear , however , that this correlation is arbitrary . Theoretical science is eventually assimilated to life ...
... example of theory : and religion , the interest in the ultimate causes of things , the unique ex- ample of belief . § 4. It is clear , however , that this correlation is arbitrary . Theoretical science is eventually assimilated to life ...
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... example , with Des- cartes , Hobbes , Leibniz , and even Kant . M. Abel Rey , in La Philosophie Moderne , writes : " All the great phi- losophers were remarkable savants , and the great savant never disdained to philosophize . So that ...
... example , with Des- cartes , Hobbes , Leibniz , and even Kant . M. Abel Rey , in La Philosophie Moderne , writes : " All the great phi- losophers were remarkable savants , and the great savant never disdained to philosophize . So that ...
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Page 6 - 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 347 - ... 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 129 - ... 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 371 - 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 346 - ... 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 123 - Hyl. To speak the truth, Philonous, I think there are two kinds of objects : — the one perceived immediately, which are likewise called ideas ; the other are real things or external objects, perceived by the mediation of ideas, which are their images and representations. Now, I own ideas do not exist without the mind ; but the latter sort of objects do.
Page 306 - 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 129 - 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 369 - 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 244 - 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.