Philosophy Historical and Critical: By André Lefèvre. Tr. with an Introduction by A. H. Keane, B. A.J.B. Lippincott and Company, 1879 - 598 من الصفحات |
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absolute abstract according action Alexandrian already amongst Anaxagoras Anaximander animal anthropomorphism Antisthenes Arcesilaus Aristotle atoms attributes Auguste Comte Averroes Bacon becomes believe bodies brain cause century cerebral character Christian civilisation combinations conception constitute deism Democritus Descartes disciples divine doctrines doubt doubtless dualism earth elements endowed Epicurus essence eternal ethics evil existence experience fact faculties faith genius gods Hence Heraclitus Hesiod human ideas illusion individual intellectual intelligence justice Kant knowledge lastly laws Leibnitz less living logic Lucretius Malebranche material matter merely metaphysicians metaphysics mind moral motion mystic nature object observation organism pantheism Parmenides phenomena philosophy physics Plato principle Protagoras pure Pyrrho Pythagoras rational reality reason recognise regarded relations religion religious result scepticism scholasticism sensation sense sentiment social society Socrates soul spirit substance theodicy theory things thought tion true truth unity universe virtue Voltaire whence word Zeno
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الصفحة 334 - ... found themselves quickly at a stand, by the difficulties that rose on every side. After we had a while puzzled ourselves, without coming any nearer a resolution of those doubts which perplexed us, it came into my thoughts, that we took a wrong course ; and that before we set ourselves upon inquiries of that nature, it was necessary to examine our own abilities, and...
الصفحة 491 - Were our minds and senses so expanded, strengthened and illuminated as to enable us to see and feel the very molecules of the brain ; were we capable of following all their motions, all their groupings, all their electric discharges, if such there be ; and were we intimately acquainted with the corresponding states of thought and feeling, we should be as far as ever from the • solution of the problem, ' How are these physical processes connected with the facts of consciousness ?' The chasm between...
الصفحة 339 - ... natures or notions are any thing else but such abstract and partial ideas of more complex ones, taken at first from particular existences, will, I fear, be at a loss where to find them. For, let any one reflect, and then tell me wherein does his idea of "man...
الصفحة xii - The inference I would draw from this class of phenomena is, that a superior intelligence has guided the development of man in a definite direction, and for a special purpose, just as man guides the development of many animal and vegetable forms.
الصفحة 339 - To conclude: this whole mystery of genera and species, which make such a noise in the schools, and are with justice so little regarded out of them, is nothing else but ABSTRACT IDEAS, more or less comprehensive, with names annexed to them.
الصفحة 334 - After we had awhile puzzled ourselves, without coming any nearer a resolution of those doubts which perplexed us, it came into my thoughts, that we took a wrong course ; and that, before we set ourselves upon inquiries of that nature, it was necessary to examine our own abilities, and see what objects our understandings were, or were not, fitted to deal with. This I proposed to the company, who all readily assented ; and thereupon it was agreed, that this should be our first inquiry.
الصفحة vi - It has not been sufficiently insisted on, that in the various branches of Social Science there is an advance from the general to the special, from the simple to the complex, analogous with that which is found in the series of the sciences, from Mathematics to Biology. To the laws of quantity comprised in Mathematics and...
الصفحة xiii - ... the passage from the current to the needle, if not demonstrable, is thinkable, and that we entertain no doubt as to the final mechanical solution of the problem. But the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought, and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously ; we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently any rudiment of the organ, which would enable us to pass, by a process...
الصفحة 334 - ... our own abilities, and see what objects our understandings were, or were not, fitted to deal with. This I proposed to the company, who all readily assented; and thereupon it was agreed that this should be our first inquiry. Some hasty and undigested thoughts on a subject I had never before considered, which I set down against our next meeting, gave the first entrance into this discourse...
الصفحة 136 - Limited and Unlimited, Odd and Even, One and Many, Right and Left, Male and Female, Rest and Motion, Straight and Curved, Light and Darkness, Good and Evil, Square and Oblong. We shall see hereafter, that Aristotle himself deduced the doctrine of four elements, and other dogmas, by oppositions of the same kind.