Lectures on the History of Philosophy, المجلد 3

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K. Paul, Trench, Trübner, & Company, Limited, 1896 - 571 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة 303 - Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper,* void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer in one word, from experience...
الصفحة 233 - ... the three angles of a triangle are together equal to two right angles, although it is not known to all.
الصفحة 271 - God loves himself, not in so far as he is infinite, but in so far as he can be explained through the essence of the human mind regarded under the form of eternity; in other words, the intellectual love of the mind towards God is part of the infinite love, wherewith God loves himself.
الصفحة 268 - ... must explain the order of the whole of nature, or the whole chain of causes, through the attribute of thought only.
الصفحة 182 - The prolongation of life. The restitution of youth in some degree. The retardation of age. The curing of diseases counted incurable. The mitigation of pain. More easy and less loathsome purgings. The increasing of strength and activity. The increasing of ability to suffer torture or pain. The altering of complexions, and fatness and leanness. The altering of statures. The altering of...
الصفحة 187 - ... he may arrive at new discoveries in reference to substances in some degree similar to one another, and selected beforehand; but he does not touch the deeper boundaries of things. But whosoever is acquainted with Forms, embraces the unity of nature in substances the most unlike...
الصفحة 301 - There is nothing more commonly taken for granted, than that there are certain principles, both speculative and practical, (for they speak of both,) universally agreed upon by all mankind...
الصفحة 307 - In the notice that our senses take of the constant vicissitude of things, we cannot but observe that several particular both qualities and substances begin to exist ; and that they receive this their existence from the due application and operation of some other being. From this observation we get our ideas of cause and effect.
الصفحة 302 - Every man being conscious to himself that he thinks; and that which his mind is applied about whilst thinking being the ideas that are there, it is past doubt that men have in their minds several ideas, — such as are those expressed by the words whiteness, hardness, sweetness, thinking, motion, man, elephant, army, drunkenness...
الصفحة 547 - We must, therefore, in the first place not esteem lightly what spirit has won, namely its gains up to the present day. Ancient Philosophy is to be reverenced as necessary, and as a link in this sacred chain, but all the same nothing more than a link. The present is the highest stage reached. In the second place, all the various philosophies are no mere fashionable theories of the time, or anything of a similar nature ; they are neither chance products nor the blaze of a fire of straw, nor casual...

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