Essays on Literature and Philosophy: Cartesianism. MetaphysicJ. Maclehose and sons, 1892 |
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absolute substance absolute unity abstract identity analytic apprehend Aristotle Aristotle's assertion attributes body Cartes Cartesian clear and distinct cogito ergo sum conceived conception connection consciousness determined difference divine doctrine dualism elements ence error essentially related ethics existence experience explain expression fact Fichte finite things Hegel Hence idea of knowledge ideal imperfect individual infinite intelligible world involved Kant Kant's law of contradiction ledge limits logic Malebranche manifestation meaning merely metaphysic mind and matter moral nature necessary necessity negation negative ness noumenal noumenon object opposed opposition organic unity ourselves pantheistic particular passions perception phenomena philosophy Plato point of view possible Posterior Analytics posteriori present presupposes principle priori pure realise reality reason regard religion sciousness seems self-determination sense separate simply space Spinoza spirit substance theory tion transcends treat truth uncon unity of thought universal whole words world in space
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Pagina 381 - The intellectual love of the mind towards God is the very love with which He loves Himself, not in so far as He is infinite, but in so far as He can be manifested through the essence of the human mind, considered under the form of eternity; that is to say, the intellectual love of the mind towards God is part of the infinite love with which God loves Himself.
Pagina 531 - Yet nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes that mean ; so, over that art, Which you say adds to nature, is an art Which nature makes...
Pagina 442 - It is to reinterpret experience, in the light of a unity which is presupposed in it, but which cannot be made conscious or explicit until the relation of experience to the thinking self is seen,—the unity of all things with each other and with the mind that knows them.
Pagina 363 - By substance, I understand that which is in itself and is conceived through itself; in other words, that, the conception of which does not need the conception of another thing from which it must be formed.
Pagina 336 - ... arrogance, pity, and all other disturbances of soul, not as vices of human nature, but as properties pertaining to it, in the same way as heat, cold, storm, thunder pertain to the nature of the atmosphere. For these, though troublesome, are yet necessary, and have certain causes through which we may come to understand them, and thus, by contemplating them in their truth, gain for our minds as much joy as by the knowledge of things that are pleasing to the senses.
Pagina 356 - Evil is not something positive, but a state of privation, something that exists not in relation to the divine, but simply in relation to the human intelligence. It is a conception that arises from that generalizing tendency of our minds, which leads us to bring all beings that have the external form of man under one and the same definition, and to suppose that they are all equally capable of the highest perfection which we can deduce from such a definition. When, therefore, we find an individual...
Pagina 451 - ... only by a long process of development out of the unconsciousness of a merely animal existence. When it is stated, later on, that the natural science of man "is necessarily abstract and imperfect, as it omits from its view the central fact in the life of the object of which it treats," it is hardly worth while discussing whether there be any such science or not.
Pagina 389 - He is the last end after which all creation strives, and this leads him to attribute to nature a desire or will which is directed towards the good as its object or end. Aristotle then brings together in his metaphysic three elements which are often separated from each other, and the connection of which is far from being at once obvious. It is to him the science of the first principles of being. It is also the science of the first principles of knowing. Lastly, it is the science of God, as the beginning...
Pagina 398 - ... its being reaffirmed with a new determination through the universal. The fact, as it is first presented to us, is not the fact as it is ; for, though it is from the fact as given that we rise to the knowledge of the law, it is the law that first enables us to understand what the fact really means. Our first consciousness of things is thus, not an immovable foundation upon which science may build, but rather a hypothetical and self-contradictory starting-point of investigation, which becomes changed...
Pagina 526 - ... upon it, he makes it the means to the realization of an individual and social life of his own — is the negation of this contingency and externality. In all this process he is showing himself to be a being who can only know himself as he knows the objective world, and who can only realize himself as he makes himself the agent of a Divine purpose, to which all things are contributing. Such an idea of man's relation to the world is necessarily involved in any theory that goes beyond that subjective...