An Outline Study of Man: Or, The Body and Mind in One System. With Illustrative Diagrams, and a Method for Blackboard Teaching

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Charles Scribner, 1873 - 308 páginas
 

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Página 284 - For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves ; which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing one another,) in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospe.1.
Página 22 - replies a pamper'd goose : And just as short of reason he must fall, Who thinks all made for one, not one for all.
Página 166 - In any particular instance of induction, the inquiry is whether we are authorized to extend, in that instance, uniformity of causation, of construction, of succession, of appearance even as in color, from the instances which we have observed to others not observed in such a way as to make of them one class, as to affirm of them the same general truths, and to make of those general truths premises for deductive reasoning. All the ground we can have for this is Analogy, or a likeness in some respects...
Página 303 - Every action is right, which, in the presence of a lower principle, follows a higher ; every action is wrong, which, in the presence of a higher principle, follows a lower.
Página 179 - Nevertheless, neither the dictum de omni et nutto — " that whatever can be affirmed (or denied) of a class may be affirmed (or denied) of everything included in the class;
Página 77 - ... intuition as it does, the ambiguity was unfortunate. The difference was not generally perceived even by philosophers ; and Priestley, and the English generally, ridiculed the Scotch for turning philosophy over to common sense. Intuition has also been used to indicate the source of these ideas. This is the term preferred by President Porter. It indicates the immediateness and necessity of the knowledge we gain by it. The difficulty with it is that we have other intuitions, as those connected with...
Página 117 - ... of the Ego. Our successive events then are successive components of ourselves. The Ego is in turn each of these events. At one moment, as was clearly seen by Condillac, it is nothing more than the sensation of taste, at the second moment, nothing more than suffering, at the third, nothing more than the recollection of the concert.
Página 108 - It <a, as it were, its cellular membrane, combining everything connected with it into unity ; nevei found by itself, but always present in connection with every other mental operation. Hence, as I said, it is not a faculty. It is not under the control of the will. It is not anything that comes to us in any sense or degree through the operation of will. We have it from the beginning; we have it by necessity ; and one man has it as much as another. Hence there cannot be different kinds of consciousness....
Página 111 - Liebnitz, on the other hand, was distinctly on the other side. Accordingly, when the formula was stated, supposed to be that of Locke, that " there is nothing in the understanding that was not previously in the sense," Liebnitz said, " except the understanding itself.
Página 231 - ... let the opportunity or the necessity of choice between two different kinds of good be presented, and the idea of freedom at once and necessarily emerges. Let, for instance, a man be required to choose between property and integrity, and he knows by necessity, and with a conviction which nothing can strengthen, and which nothing can shake, that he is free to choose either. The discussions about the freedom of the will have been endless, but nothing has ever shaken the conviction of the race in...

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