The Journal of speculative philosophy: Ed. by Wm. T. Harris. microform, Volume 18[etc.] D. Appleton, 1884 |
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absolute abstract action activity affirmation Agamemnon Antonio Rosmini-Serbati Aphrodite assertion become body Book Bradley called cause cognition color conceived conception connection consciousness contemplation Descartes determined Diomed divine essence ethical evil existence experience external fact faculties feeling final end finite freedom given Greek Hegel Helen hence human idea ideal content idealist Iliad indeterminate individual inductive reasoning infinite infinite series intellect John Stuart Mill judgment Kant knowledge limits logical manifestation matter means Menelaus mind moral motion nature negation object organic over-soul Pallas pantheism particular perception phenomena philosophy philosophy of religion position possible present principle pure question reality reason regard relation religion rience Rosmini Rowland G sensations sense sensible side simply soul space sphere spirit synthetic theory things thought tion triangle Trojan Troy true truth unity universal volition whole words Zeus
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Page 124 - But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.
Page 190 - Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its focus.
Page 378 - Put out the light, and then put out the light. If I quench thee, thou flaming minister, I can again thy former light restore, Should I repent me; but once put out thy light, Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature, I know not where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume.
Page 125 - They exemplify almost perfectly the secular attitude which dominates the modern world. Their grief, according to Dante, arises from the fact that they "have no hope of death; and their blind life is so debased, that they are envious of every other lot.
Page 196 - The lords of life, the lords of life, — I saw them pass, In their own guise, Like and unlike, Portly and grim, Use and Surprise, Surface and Dream, Succession swift, and spectral Wrong, Temperament without a tongue, And the inventor of the game Omnipresent without name ; — Some to see, some to be guessed, They...
Page 360 - For example, does it not require some pains and skill to form the general idea of a triangle ? (which is yet none of the most abstract, comprehensive, and difficult;) for it must be neither oblique nor rectangle, neither equilateral, equicrural, nor scalenon, but all and none of these at once. In effect, it is something imperfect that cannot exist, an idea wherein some parts of several different and inconsistent ideas are put together.
Page 195 - The problem of restoring to the world original and eternal beauty is solved by the redemption of the soul. The ruin or the blank that we see when we look at nature, is in our own eye.
Page 427 - Child 1 of a day, thou knowest not The tears that overflow thine urn, The gushing eyes that read thy lot, Nor, if thou knewest, couldst return ! And why the wish ! the pure and blest Watch like thy mother o'er thy sleep. O peaceful night ! O envied rest ! Thou wilt not ever see her weep.
Page 347 - Poor philosopher Berkeley has now the idea t of health, which was very hard to produce in him ; for he had an idea of a strange fever upon him so strong, that it was very hard to destroy it by introducing a contrary one.
Page 256 - Judgment in general is the faculty of thinking the particular as contained under the universal. If the universal (the rule, the principle, the law) is given, then the judgment which subsumes the particular under it...