Philosophy: what is It?at the University Press, 1927 - 135 من الصفحات |
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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 63 - 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. For, from what impression could this idea be derived?
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 131 - God alone in all matters, love Him with all our heart and with all our soul and with all our strength, defying the devil with all his following, that we may through Christ be eternally blessed.
الصفحة 87 - Two measurements of length are made from the poll to the tip of the horn, one on the inside and the other on the outside of the horn.
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 2 - ... though the questions may be asked, and in moments of personal despair are asked, in a tone which implies that no satisfactory answer is or can be forthcoming, they may also be considered, in a calmer mood, as questions which call for a reasoned answer, and with regard to which we must ask, as a matter of deliberation rather than of despair, whether an answer is possible at all. Now it is the calm consideration of these questions that is to be given to them — if any answer can be given — that...
الصفحة 13 - The strategy of science — the uniform method of all the sciences — consists in dividing the enemy's forces, as it were, and so beating them in detail. Every object has a host of various qualities, and each of...