English and American Philosophy Since 1800: A Critical SurveyMacmillan, 1922 - 468 pages |
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Absolute abstract accept accordingly activity actual agnosticism appears argument aspect belief called causal character claim conceived conception concrete connection consciousness consequences constitutes definition difficulty distinction doctrine dualism empiricism ence epistemology ethical evolution existence experience external F. C. S. Schiller fact feeling finite Hamilton Hegel human idea ideal idealistic individual intellectual interest interpretation J. S. Mill James James Mill judgment justify knowledge lative ligion matter meaning mental metaphysical method Mill Mill's mind monism moral natural selection nature neo-realism neo-realistic notion object organism panpsychism panpsychist particular perception phenomena philosophy physical possible practical pragmatism present presupposes principle problem psychical qualia qualities rational realism reality reason recognize Reid relation religion religious scientific seems sensation sense simply social sort Spencer spiritual stand suppose theory things thought tion Tractarian true truth ultimate unity universe Utilitarians whole
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Page 64 - Lucretius : he regarded it with the feelings due not to a mere mental delusion, but to a great moral evil. He looked upon it as the greatest enemy of morality...
Page 127 - My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.
Page 215 - Standing on the bare ground, — my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, — all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; 1 see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me. I am part or parcel of God.
Page 361 - Consider what effects, that might conceivably have practical bearings, we conceive the object of our conception to have. Then, our conception of these effects is the whole of our conception of the object.
Page 63 - The notion that truths external to the mind may be known by intuition or consciousness, independently of observation and experience, is, I am persuaded, in these times, the great intellectual support of false doctrines and bad institutions.
Page 175 - But the great blow which fell upon me seemed to stir them to their foundation, and had I lived a couple of centuries earlier I could have fancied a devil scoffing at me and them — and asking me what profit it was to have stripped myself of the hopes and consolations of the mass of mankind ? To which my only reply was and is — Oh devil ! truth is better than much profit.
Page 165 - Largely, however, if not chiefly, this change of feeling towards religious creeds and their sustaining institutions, has resulted from a deepening conviction that the sphere occupied by them can never become an unfilled sphere, but that there must continue to arise afresh the great questions concerning ourselves and surrounding things ; and that, if not positive answers, then modes of consciousness standing in place of positive answers, must ever remain.
Page 176 - I have already hinted, it seems to me pretty plain that there is a third thing in the universe, to wit, consciousness, which, in the hardness of my heart or head, I cannot see to be matter, or force, or any conceivable modification of either, however intimately the manifestations of the phenomena of consciousness may be connected with the phenomena known as matter and force.
Page 319 - Speak to Him, thou, for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet— Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.
Page 186 - Whoso would deserve well of his fellows in this matter will guard the purity of his belief with a very fanaticism of jealous care, lest at any time it should rest on an unworthy object, and catch a stain which can never be wiped away...