Modern Thinkers and Present Problems: An Approach to Modern Philosophy Through Its HistoryH. Holt, 1923 - 322 من الصفحات |
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accept Adrien Sixte amoralist animal answer Aristotle ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER asceticism atoms axioms beauty believe BENEDICT DE SPINOZA better body categorical imperative Christianity David Hume decalogue deny Descartes desire divine dream duty earth empiricism Epicurus eternal existence experience fact faith fear feeling Fichte follow freedom Giordano Bruno give God's group mind happiness hate heart heaven hope human Hume Hume's idea ideal imagination IMMANUEL KANT individual insight Kant Kant's kind less live loyalty matter meaning mechanical miracles Mocenigo modern moral nature never Nietzsche Nietzsche's Old Testament one's pain peace perhaps personal psychology philosophy pity pragmatism purpose question reason religion religious reveal Royce Saint Dominic Schopenhauer Schopenhauer's seems sense soul Spinoza spirit stars struggle Superman suppose tell things thought tion truth understanding universe virtue whole word writes
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الصفحة 105 - A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined.
الصفحة 106 - When any one tells me that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself, whether it be more probable that this person should either deceive or be deceived, or that the fact which he relates should really have happened. I weigh the one miracle against the other; and according to the superiority which I discover, I pronounce my decision, and always reject the greater miracle. If the falsehood of his testimony would be more miraculous than the event which he relates; then,...
الصفحة 266 - Hereby it is manifest, that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war, and such a war as is of every man against every man.
الصفحة 224 - To spend uncounted years of pain, Again, again, and yet again, In working out in heart and brain The problem of our being here ; To gather facts from far and near, Upon the mind to hold them clear, And, knowing more may yet appear, Unto one's latest breath to fear The premature result to draw — Is this the object, end and law, And purpose of our being here ? THE SHADOW'.
الصفحة 242 - ... the energies of our system will decay, the glory of the sun will be dimmed, and the earth, tideless and inert, will no longer tolerate the race which has for a moment disturbed its solitude. Man will go down into the pit, and all his thoughts will perish.
الصفحة 276 - Where wast thou when I laid the foundation of the earth? Declare, if thou hast understanding.
الصفحة 266 - In such condition there is no place for industry, because the fruit thereof is uncertain, and consequently no culture of the earth; no navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea; no commodious building; no instruments of moving and removing such things as require much force; no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time; no arts; no letters; no society...
الصفحة 125 - I deny a providence, you say, and supreme governor of the world, who guides the course of events, and punishes the vicious with infamy and disappointment, and rewards the virtuous with honour and success in all their undertakings.
الصفحة 231 - Do you like me or not ? — for example. Whether you do or not depends, in countless instances, on whether I meet you half-way, am willing to assume that you must like me, and show you trust and expectation. The previous faith on my part in your liking's existence is in such cases what makes your liking come. But if I stand aloof, and refuse to budge an inch...
الصفحة 106 - That no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact, which it endeavours to establish...