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... action is called will . Freedom cannot be predicated of the will , but only of the action , and even in this case it means simply the absence of external restraints , the procedure of the action from the will of the agent ; while the action ...
... action is called will . Freedom cannot be predicated of the will , but only of the action , and even in this case it means simply the absence of external restraints , the procedure of the action from the will of the agent ; while the action ...
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... action is in its nature indifferent , that right and wrong exist only in the state , that the will of a despot is to ... actions . The laws of nature are , it is true , not always legally binding ( in foro externo ) , but always and ...
... action is in its nature indifferent , that right and wrong exist only in the state , that the will of a despot is to ... actions . The laws of nature are , it is true , not always legally binding ( in foro externo ) , but always and ...
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... action ; the thinker has shown himself the doctrinaire in his destructive analysis of that which is given , so , also , he hopes to play the dictator by overturning existing institutions and es- tablishing a new order of things , -only ...
... action ; the thinker has shown himself the doctrinaire in his destructive analysis of that which is given , so , also , he hopes to play the dictator by overturning existing institutions and es- tablishing a new order of things , -only ...
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... action . Ambulo ergo sum would not be valid , but mihi videor or puto me ambulare , ergo sum . If I believe I am walking , I may undoubtedly be deceived concerning the outward action ( as , for instance , in dreams ) , but never con ...
... action . Ambulo ergo sum would not be valid , but mihi videor or puto me ambulare , ergo sum . If I believe I am walking , I may undoubtedly be deceived concerning the outward action ( as , for instance , in dreams ) , but never con ...
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... activity . The third law relates to the communication of motion ; but Descartes does not recognize the equality of action and reaction as universally as the fact demands . If a body in motion meets another body , and its power NATURE . 99.
... activity . The third law relates to the communication of motion ; but Descartes does not recognize the equality of action and reaction as universally as the fact demands . If a body in motion meets another body , and its power NATURE . 99.
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Page 245 - Even if God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him, so Voltaire said — 'si dieu n'existait pas, il faudrait 1'inventer.
Page 572 - Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion ; during which the matter passes from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity ; and during •which the retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation.
Page 567 - If two or more instances in which the phenomenon occurs have only one circumstance in common, while two or more instances in which it does not occur have nothing in common save the absence of that circumstance, the circumstance in which alone the two sets of instances differ is the effect, or the cause, or an indispenable part of the cause, of the phenomenon.
Page 566 - ... a series of feelings which is aware of itself as past and future; and we are reduced to the alternative of believing that the mind, or Ego, is something different from any series of feelings, or possibilities of them, or of accepting the paradox that something which ex hypothesi is but a series of feelings, can be aware of itself as a series.
Page 117 - Of God, (2) Of the Nature and Origin of the Mind, (3) Of the Origin and Nature of the Affects, (4) Of Human Bondage, or of the Strength of the Affects, (5) Of the Power of the Intellect, or of Human Liberty. By BENEDICT DE SPINOZA. Translated from the Latin by WILLIAM HALE WHITE, los.
Page 578 - has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other...
Page 71 - A man that hath no virtue in himself ever envieth virtue in others; for men's minds will either feed upon their own good, or upon others...
Page 71 - I CANNOT call Riches better than the baggage of virtue. The Roman word is better, im-pedimenta. For as the baggage is to an army, so is riches to virtue. It cannot be spared nor left behind, but it hindereth the march; yea and the care of it sometimes loseth or disturbeth the victory.
Page 238 - ... that there is life and intelligence in our fellow-men "; "that there is a certain regard due ... to human authority in matters of opinion"; "that, in the phenomena of nature, what is to be, will probably be like what has been in similar circumstances.
Page 411 - All production of material things and their forms must be judged to be possible according to merely mechanical laws.