An Historical and Critical View of the Speculative Philosophy of Europe in the Ninetheenth Century, Том 1William Pickering, 1846 |
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Abraham Tucker absolute abstract action admit altogether analysis argument arise Aristotle atheism attempt axioms belief Cartesian cause century ciples complete conceptions conclusions Condillac connexion consciousness Descartes direct distinct doctrine elements emotions empiricism error ethics evidence existence experience external fact faculties feelings finite former foundation fundamental give ground Hartley Hobbes human knowledge human mind human reason Hume idealism ideas inasmuch infinite innate innate ideas intellectual investigation judgment Kant laws laws of thought Leibnitz Locke Locke's logical Malebranche manifested material world matter means mental metaphysical metaphysician method monads moral mysticism nature never notion object observation ontology origin outward perception pheno phenomena philo philosophical scepticism phrenology physical Plato principles pure reason reality regard Reid scepticism sensation sensationalism sense shew simply speculative philosophy Spinoza spirit subjective subjective idealism substance tendency term theory things thought tion true truth understanding universe volition whole writings
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Сторінка 116 - It is evident the mind knows not things immediately, but only by the intervention of the ideas it has of them. Our knowledge therefore is real only so far as there is a conformity between our ideas and the reality of things.
Сторінка 340 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
Сторінка 174 - It was Mr. Locke that struck the home blow : for Mr. Hobbes's character and base slavish principles in government took off the poison of his philosophy. 'Twas Mr. Locke that struck at all fundamentals, threw all order and virtue out of the world, and made the very ideas of these (which are the same as those of God) unnatural, and without foundation in our minds.
Сторінка 284 - Universal scepticism involves a contradiction in terms. It is a belief that there can be no belief. It is an attempt of the mind to act without its structure, and by other laws than those to which its nature has subjected its operations. To reason without assenting to the principles on which its reasoning is founded, is not unlike an effort to feel without nerves, or to move without muscles.
Сторінка 102 - The whole is equal to all its parts:" — what real truth, I beseech you, does it teach us? What more is contained in that maxim, than what the signification of the word totum, or the whole, does of itself import?
Сторінка 391 - That man is compelled by his original constitution to receive his feelings and his convictions independently of his will. " 3d. That his feelings or his convictions, or both of them united, create the motive to action called the will, which stimulates him to act, and decides his actions.
Сторінка 393 - That the organization of no two human beings is ever precisely similar at birth ; nor can art subsequently form any two individuals, from infancy to maturity, to be precisely similar.
Сторінка 386 - That man is a compound being, whose character is formed of his constitution or organization at birth, and of the effects of external circumstances upon it, from birth to death ; such original organization and external influences continually acting and reacting each upon the other.
Сторінка 122 - There may be," says a writer in the Edinburgh Review, (Oct. 1806), "little shakings in the brain for anything we know, and there may even be shakings of a different kind accompanying every act of thought or perception ; but that the shakings themselves are the thoughts or perception, we are so far from admitting, that we find it impossible to comprehend what can be meant by the assertion.
Сторінка 360 - Moreover, there is a fundamental distinction between the principles of legislation and those of private morality, which should never be lost sight of. The former principles suppose the existence of the latter, and must proceed in strict accordance with them, whether it appear a matter of policy to do so or not. The object of the jurist is, simply to take men with their moral feelings as they are, already fixed and determined, and so to direct their actions as to bring about the greatest welfare of...