Australasian Journal of Philosophy, المجلد 5Australasian Association of Psychology and Philosophy, 1927 |
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A. N. Whitehead activity appetite Association Australia Benedetto Croce boys C. K. Ogden character CHIG child coefficients conception consciousness correlations culture Descartes determined doctrine dream emotion empiricism employees environment ERSITY UNIV ethical ethnology evidence evolution example existence experience fact family endowment feeling group factor human Ibid ideas important impulse individual Industrial influence instinct intelligence intuition Journal knowledge linguistic tests living wage Maori McDougall means ment mental MICHIS mind moral Morris Miller object organism physical picture tests Plato Polynesian present Price principle problem Professor proposition question rational reality reason regarded relation relativity of simultaneity Religion RSITY scholastic tests Section sense simple natures SITY social soul South Wales Spearman tetrad tetrad differences theory things thought tion truth UNIV MIC UNIV UNIV University of Sydney University of Tasmania Zealand
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الصفحة 167 - But the great tragedy of Science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact...
الصفحة 150 - The duties of all public officers are, or at least admit of being made, so plain and simple that men of intelligence may readily qualify themselves for their performance...
الصفحة 120 - ... his own preservation and happiness; and the nature of man as having respect to society, and tending to promote public good, the happiness of that society. These ends do indeed perfectly coincide; and to aim at public and private good are so far from being inconsistent, that they mutually promote each other...
الصفحة 138 - Our souls, whose faculties can comprehend The wondrous architecture of the world, And measure every wandering planet's course, Still climbing after knowledge infinite, And always moving as the restless spheres, Will us to wear ourselves, and never rest, Until we reach the ripest fruit of all, That perfect bliss and sole felicity, The sweet fruition of an earthly crown.
الصفحة 183 - The world is now faced with a self-evolving system, which it cannot stop. There are dangers and advantages in this situation. It is obvious that the gain in material power affords opportunity for social betterment. If mankind can rise to the occasion, there lies in front a golden age of beneficent creativeness.
الصفحة 163 - The history of thought in the. eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is governed by the fact that the world had got hold of a general idea which it could neither live with nor live without.
الصفحة 24 - Take away these instinctive dispositions with their powerful impulses, and the organism would become incapable of activity of any kind ; it would lie inert and motionless like a wonderful clockwork whose mainspring had been removed or a steam-engine whose fires had been drawn.
الصفحة 202 - intuitive', and by 'intuition' (intuitus) he means "not the fluctuating testimony of the senses, nor the misleading judgment that proceeds from the blundering constructions of imagination, but the conception which an unclouded and attentive mind gives us so readily and distinctly that we are wholly freed from doubt about that which we understand".
الصفحة 215 - Method consists entirely in the order and disposition of the objects towards which our mental vision must be directed if we would find out any truth. We shall comply with it exactly if we reduce involved and obscure propositions step by step to those that are simpler, and then starting with the intuitive apprehension of all those that are absolutely simple, attempt to ascend to the knowledge of all others by precisely similar steps.
الصفحة 120 - ... In comparing the moral qualities of actions in order to regulate our election among various actions proposed, or to find which of them has the greatest moral excellency, we are led by our moral sense of virtue to judge thus: that in equal degrees of happiness expected to proceed from the action the virtue is in proportion to the number of persons to whom the happiness shall extend...