Essay on Religious Philosophy, Volume 1T. & T. Clark, 1863 |
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absolute absolutely infinite abstract according action activity admit affirm antinomies Aristotle attri attributes body butes Cartesian cause chimeras conceive concept confounded consciousness consequently contrary created creatures demonstration Descartes determined distinct Divine thought doctrine doubt duration duty Erdmann Essais essence eternal Ethica evil existence express extension fact faith finite genius geometry give Hegel human soul idea ideal immensity imperfect infinity intellect Kant Leibnitz liberty limited living logical Malebranche mathematical matter Meditations metaphysical mind modes monads moral natura naturans nature necessarily necessary necessity Newton notions objects Pantheism perfection person phenomena philosophy physical Plato possesses possible principle priori proof pure reason reality res extensa scepticism sense sensible sion soul space speak speculative reason Spinoza spirit stance substance suppose syllogisms Theism Théodicée theology theory things tion tonian true truth understanding undetermined unity universe virtue
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Pagina 17 - This generalization appears to me to have that high degree of scientific evidence which is derived from the concurrence of the indications of history with the probabilities derived from the constitution of the human mind.
Pagina 183 - ... demonstrably from your supposition ; and, were that evident, I believe it would serve to prove several other things as well as what you bring it for. Upon which account, I should be extremely pleased to see it proved by any one. For, as I design the search after truth as the business of my life, I shall not be ashamed to learn from any person ; though, at the same time, I cannot but be sensible, that instruction from some men is like the gift of a prince, it reflects an honour on the person on...
Pagina 40 - For I doubt not but, if it had been a thing contrary to any man's right of dominion, or to the interest of men that have dominion, ' that the three angles of a triangle should be equal to two angles of a square,' that doctrine should have been, if not disputed, yet by the burning of all books of geometry, suppressed, as far as he whom it concerned was able.
Pagina 249 - I am forced to conclude that good, the greater good, though apprehended and acknowledged to be so, does not determine the will until our desire, raised proportionably to it, makes us uneasy in the want of it.
Pagina 173 - ... and planets, and the gravitating powers resulting from thence; the several distances of the primary planets from the sun, and of the secondary ones from Saturn, Jupiter, and the earth ; and the velocities with which these planets could revolve about those quantities of matter in the central bodies ; and to compare and adjust all these things together, in so great a variety of bodies, argues that cause to be, not blind and fortuitous, but very well skilled in mechanics and geometry.
Pagina 217 - God. 191 the sensible parts of the universe offer so clearly and cogently to our thoughts, that I deem it impossible for a considering man to withstand them.
Pagina 97 - ... went round the lodgings to wait upon the earl, the countess, and the children, and any considerable strangers, paying some short addresses to all of them. He kept these rounds till about twelve o'clock, when he had a little dinner provided for him, which he ate always by himself without ceremony.
Pagina 182 - To the second head of argument, I answer: Space is a property [or mode] of the self-existent substance; but not of any other substances. All other substances are in space, and are penetrated by it; but the self-existent substance -is not in space, nor penetrated by it, but is itself (if I may so speak) the substratum of space, the ground of the existence of space and duration itself.
Pagina 112 - But it cannot exist as finite substance, for (Def. 2) it must (if finite) be limited by another substance of the same nature, which also must necessarily exist (Prop. 7), and therefore there would be two substances of the same attribute, which is absurd (Prop. 5). It exists therefore as infinite substance. — QED Schol.
Pagina 38 - I reflect upon myself," he says, "not only do I know that I am an imperfect, incomplete, dependent thing, constantly tending to, and aspiring after something better and grander than I am, but I also know, at the same time, that He on whom I depend possesses in Himself all those great things...