Personal Idealism: Philosophical Essays by Eight Members of the University of OxfordHenry Cecil Sturt Macmillan, 1902 - 393 стор. |
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absolute abstract object actual æsthetic affirm Agnosticism answer appearance apriorism artistic assume assumption axioms believe causal cause character chemical elements conceived conception consciousness course determined distinction emotion empiricism empiricist epistemological error essay essential Ethics Evolution evolutionist existence experience explain feeling fundamental Furnival's Inn Hence human idea ideal identity implies independent Indeterminism individual Inductive Psychology instinct intellectual intelligible interest intuition intuitionism J. H. BERNARD judgment Kant kind knowledge laws less logical means mechanical mental merely metaphysical method mind Monism moral Natural Selection nature normative science organism Origin philosophy physical Plato point of view possible postulate practical present principle priori problem psychical pure purpose question rational realised reality reason recognise regard relation scientific seems sense spirit suppose teleological theory things thought tion true truth ultimate ultimate fact unity universe validity virtues volitional whole
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Сторінка 211 - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Сторінка 211 - It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent on each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us.
Сторінка 214 - What limit can be put to this power, acting during long ages and rigidly scrutinising the whole constitution, structure, and habits of each creature, — favouring the good and rejecting the bad? I can see no limit to this power, in slowly and beautifully adapting each form to the most complex relations of life.
Сторінка 298 - AMOKO the hours of his life to which the writer looks back with peculiar gratitude, as having been marked by more than ordinary fulness of joy or clearness of teaching, is one passed, now some years ago, near time of sunset, among the broken masses of pine forest which skirt the course of the Ain, above the village of Champagnolc, in the Jura.
Сторінка 157 - Any other word permits of quibbling, and lets us, after the fashion of the soft determinists, make a pretence of restoring the caged bird to liberty with one hand, while with the other we anxiously tie a string to its leg to make sure it does not get beyond our sight. But now you will bring up your final doubt. Does not the admission of such an unguaranteed chance or freedom preclude utterly the notion of a Providence governing the world?
Сторінка 299 - The flowers in an instant lost their light, the river its music ; the hills became oppressively desolate ; a heaviness in the boughs of the darkened forest showed how much of their former power had been dependent upon a life which was not theirs, how much of the glory of the imperishable, or continually renewed, creation is reflected from things more precious in...
Сторінка 298 - Champagnole, in the Jura. It is a spot which has all the solemnity, with none of the savageness, of the Alps ; where there is a sense of a great power beginning to be manifested in the earth, and of a deep and majestic concord in the rise of the long low lines of piny hills ; the first utterance of those mighty mountain symphonies, soon to be more loudly lifted and wildly broken along the battlements of the Alps.
Сторінка 211 - These laws, taken in the largest sense, being Growth with reproduction; Inheritance which is almost implied by reproduction; Variability from the indirect and direct action of the conditions of life, and from use and disuse: a Ratio of Increase so high as to lead to a Struggle for Life, and as a consequence to Natural Selection, entailing Divergence of Character and the Extinction of less improved forms.
Сторінка 158 - ... of disconnectedness of one part with another, the smallest modicum of independence, the faintest tremor of ambiguity about the future, for example, would ruin everything, and turn this goodly universe into a sort of insane sand-heap or nulliverse, no universe at all. Since future human volitions are as a matter of fact the only ambiguous things we are tempted to believe in...