The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Volume 10; Volume 18Pennsylvania State University Press, 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 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 sciousness 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 196 - 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 201 - 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 marched from east to west : Little man, least of all, Among the legs of his guardians tall, Walked about with puzzled look : — TTiTTi by the hand dear Nature took ; Dearest Nature, strong...
Page 368 - 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 127 - 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 144 - I have known a man of vigorous intellect, who had enjoyed few advantages of early education, and whose mind was almost engrossed by the details of an extensive business, but who composed a book of much original thought, in steamboats and on horseback, while visiting distant customers.
Page 201 - 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 355 - 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 262 - 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...
Page 42 - Granted, that the world has no beginning in time; up to every given moment of time, an eternity must have elapsed, and therewith passed away an infinite series of successive conditions or states of things in the world. Now the infinity of a series consists in the fact, that it never can be completed by means of a successive synthesis. It follows that an infinite series already elapsed is impossible, and that consequently a beginning of the world is a necessary condition of its existence.
Page 285 - It is sufficient here merely to observe regarding the supposed opposition of the Philosophy of Religion and positive religion, that there cannot be two kinds of reason and two kinds of Spirit; there cannot be a Divine reason and a human, there cannot be a Divine Spirit and a human, which are absolutely different.