Philosophy: What is it

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Cambridge U.P., 1920 - 135 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة 63 - For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe anything but the perception.
الصفحة 63 - If any one, upon serious and unprejudiced reflection, thinks he has a different notion of himself, I must confess I can reason no longer with him. All I can allow him is that he may be in the right as well as I, and that we are essentially different in this particular. He may, perhaps, perceive something simple and continued which he calls himself, though I am certain there is no such principle in me.
الصفحة 63 - But setting aside some metaphysicians of this kind, I may venture to affirm, of the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement.
الصفحة 62 - THERE are some philosophers who imagine we are every moment intimately conscious of what we call our self; that we feel its existence and its continuance in existence; and are certain, beyond the evidence of a demonstration, both of its perfect identity and simplicity.
الصفحة 63 - There are some philosophers who imagine we are every moment intimately conscious of what we call our SELF; that we feel its existence and its continuance in existence, and are certain, beyond the evidence of a demonstration, both of its perfect identity and simplicity. . . . Unluckily all these positive assertions are contrary to that very experience which is pleaded for them, nor have we any idea of Self, after the manner it is here explained.
الصفحة 127 - ... some of Dr. Jevons' incidental positions, or reasonings, the following passage from " Personality and the Whole " bears witness to the soundness of his philosophic creed on the great crucial questions, the existence of a personal God, and man's free will. On the assumption, which we now see that all have made from the beginning, that experience is a whole and has a meaning, and that the reality of the whole is a Perfect Personality, it will follow that our human personalities are but feeble copies...
الصفحة 128 - ... future is not predetermined, but will be what we help to make it. Because we have free will we are helping to determine — for better or for worse — what the future will be. The whole, that is to say, is in process. Process or activity in process, implies an end — a good which is being realized and an end which is yet to be attained. That good is expressed in the words, " Thou shalt love thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, and thy neighbor as thyself.
الصفحة 32 - Yes, but this is the very point which ought to have been determined first, namely, what we ought to understand by religion. And here I answer that in order to understand what religion is, we must first of all see what it has been, and how it has come to be what it is. Antiquity of Religion. Religion is not a new invention. It is, if not as old as the world, at least as old as the world we know. As soon almost as we know anything of the thoughts and feelings of man, we find him in possession of religion,...
الصفحة 17 - Hence it is that science is doubly abstract. It is abstract in the first place because it dismisses from attention all qualities except the one under investigation, and pretends that that one alone exists; and it is abstract in the next place because it dismisses the student from attention and pretends that the thing under investigation alone exists.
الصفحة 127 - And now it turns out that that assumption requires a previous supposition, the supposition of the existence of a perfect Personality, and the belief that "in Him we live and move and have our being.

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