The World and Its Meaning: An Introduction to PhilosophyHoughton Mifflin, 1924 - 463 من الصفحات |
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activity adaptive æsthetic animal Aristotle Arthur Thomson atoms beauty behavior believe Bergson biological body C. D. Broad cause chap chapter concepts consciousness coöperation creative Darwin Descartes double-aspect theory Dualism elements energy eternal ethics evil evolution evolutionary existence experience explain F. C. S. Schiller fact force freedom Friedrich Paulsen Greek Henry Holt Holt and Company human Idealism ideas impulse intelligence interest James Josiah Royce Kant kind knowledge L. T. Hobhouse laws living logical Macmillan Company material matter means mechanical mechanistic mental merely metaphysical method modern Monism moral natural selection notion objects organism perhaps philosophy of mind physical Plato pleasure possible Pragmatism Pragmatists present principle problem psychical psychology purpose question Ralph Barton Perry Realism reality relation religion scientific seems sense social soul Space speak species spirit theory things thought tion truth unity Universe values vital whole word
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الصفحة 196 - Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument About it and about : but evermore Came out by the same door where in I went...
الصفحة 196 - All things are full of labour ; man cannot utter it : the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
الصفحة 351 - Some truths there are so near and obvious to the mind, that a man need only open his eyes to see them. Such I take this important one to be, to wit, that all the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth, in a word all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world, have not any subsistence without a mind...
الصفحة xii - Columbus found a world, and had no chart, Save one that faith deciphered in the skies; To trust the soul's invincible surmise Was all his science and his only art.
الصفحة 8 - Strange, is it not? that of the myriads who Before us pass'd the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the Road, ' "* Which to discover we must travel too.
الصفحة 285 - And what is so rare as a day in June ? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays : Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten ; Every clod feels a stir of might. An instinct within it that reaches and towers, And, groping blindly above it for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers...
الصفحة 186 - It is sweet, when on the great sea the winds trouble its waters, to behold from land another's deep distress ; not that it is a pleasure and delight that any should be afflicted, but because it is sweet to see from what evils you are yourself exempt.
الصفحة 194 - an endless significance lies in Work;" a man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seedfields rise instead, and stately cities ; and withal the man himself first ceases to be a jungle and foul unwholesome desert thereby. Consider, how, even in the meanest sorts of...
الصفحة 351 - It is indeed an opinion strangely prevailing amongst men, that houses, mountains, rivers, and in a word all sensible objects, have an existence, natural or real, distinct from their being perceived by the understanding.
الصفحة 372 - A pragmatist turns his back resolutely and once for all upon a lot of inveterate habits dear to professional philosophers. He turns away from abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions, from bad a priori reasons, from fixed principles, closed systems, and pretended absolutes and origins. He turns towards concreteness and adequacy, towards facts, towards action and towards power.