The Philosophical Basis of Theism: An Examination of the Personality of Man to Ascertain His Capacity to Know and Serve God, and the Validity of the Principles Underlying the Defence of Theisml'Scribner's Sons, 1892 - 577 pages |
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... INFERENCES . - I . Knowledge ontological in its beginning . . . 158-167 Critical point against agnosticism . - II . Knowledge begins as knowledge of personal beings and impersonal . Mansel's objection . Excludes materialism and idealism ...
... INFERENCES . - I . Knowledge ontological in its beginning . . . 158-167 Critical point against agnosticism . - II . Knowledge begins as knowledge of personal beings and impersonal . Mansel's objection . Excludes materialism and idealism ...
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... inference and by induction . - II . Only by this can thought solve its ultimate problem . 1. Thought culminates in finding the unity of the manifold . 2. Must be the unity of rational system . 3. Possible only in recognizing a personal ...
... inference and by induction . - II . Only by this can thought solve its ultimate problem . 1. Thought culminates in finding the unity of the manifold . 2. Must be the unity of rational system . 3. Possible only in recognizing a personal ...
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... INFERENCES . - I . Knowledge ontological in its beginning . against agnosticism . - II . Knowledge begins as knowledge of personal beings and impersonal . Mansel's objection . Excludes materialism and idealism . Kant's phenomenalism ...
... INFERENCES . - I . Knowledge ontological in its beginning . against agnosticism . - II . Knowledge begins as knowledge of personal beings and impersonal . Mansel's objection . Excludes materialism and idealism . Kant's phenomenalism ...
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... Inference from the foregoing . Begins in right moral character . Right choice the essential germ of character is good in itself . Development of all the powers to perfection . Realized only by action in love . No absolute perfection to ...
... Inference from the foregoing . Begins in right moral character . Right choice the essential germ of character is good in itself . Development of all the powers to perfection . Realized only by action in love . No absolute perfection to ...
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... inference in knowledge . Thus in the experience of life all thinking is a con- tinuous revelation of these truths and of the reality of our knowledge of them . In a similar manner we come to the knowledge of truths which are obligatory ...
... inference in knowledge . Thus in the experience of life all thinking is a con- tinuous revelation of these truths and of the reality of our knowledge of them . In a similar manner we come to the knowledge of truths which are obligatory ...
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Absolute Reason according action æther affirms agnosticism antinomies apprehended beauty belief cause Christianity conception constitution contradiction contrary Descartes distinct distinguished doctrine error essential eternal ethics experience fact faculties false feeling finite Geschichte des Materialismus human knowledge hypothesis idea ideals individual induction inference intellectual intelligence intuitive knowledge J. G. Fichte J. S. Mill Kant knowledge is impossible laws of thought ledge logical man's mental mind modes of existence moral nature necessary necessary inference notion noumenon observation pantheism particular realities perceptive intuition persistence person phenomena philosophy physical science possible presentative intuition primitive knowledge principles of reason prove rational intuition real knowledge reality of knowledge recognized reflective thought regulative relation relativity of knowledge religious reveals says scientific self-evident sense sense-perception skepticism spirit supreme theism theology theory of knowledge things thinking tion transcendental Ego true truths and laws unity universal principles unknowable
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Page 240 - O Lady! we receive but what we give And in our life alone does Nature live: Ours is her wedding garment, ours her shroud! And would we aught behold of higher worth, Than that inanimate cold world allowed To the poor loveless ever-anxious crowd, Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth And from the soul itself must there be sent A sweet and potent voice, of its own birth, Of all sweet sounds the life and element!
Page 192 - I am surpriz'd to find, that instead of the usual copulations of propositions, is, and is not, I meet with no proposition that is not connected with an ought, or an ought not. This change is imperceptible ; but is, however, of the last consequence. For as this ought, or ought not...
Page 97 - For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe anything but the perception.
Page 328 - ... if any man shall think, by view and inquiry into these sensible and material things, to attain that light, whereby he may reveal unto himself the nature or will of God, then indeed is he spoiled by vain philosophy ; for the contemplation of God's creatures and works produceth (having regard to the works and creatures themselves) knowledge ; but (having regard to God) no perfect knowledge, but wonder, which is broken knowledge.
Page 192 - ... no proposition that is not connected with an ought, or an ought not. This change is imperceptible; but is, however, of the last consequence. For as this ought, or ought not, expresses some new relation or affirmation, 'tis necessary that it...
Page 342 - Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born, With nowhere yet to rest my head, Like these, on earth I wait forlorn. Their faith, my tears, the world deride ; I come to shed them at their side.
Page 224 - Learn from yon orient shell to love thy foe, And store with pearls the hand that brings thee woe : Free, like yon rock, from base vindictive pride, Emblaze with gems the wrist that rends thy side...
Page 342 - Achilles ponders in his tent. The kings of modern thought are dumb ; Silent they are, though not content, And wait to see the future come.
Page 382 - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt...
Page 390 - But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.