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... mind to matter , started in the second essay , are argued out more fully in the third paper , dealing with Dr ... minds to whom Pessimism will approve itself as both a truer feeling and philo- sophy than the " Enthusiasm of Humanity ...
... mind to matter , started in the second essay , are argued out more fully in the third paper , dealing with Dr ... minds to whom Pessimism will approve itself as both a truer feeling and philo- sophy than the " Enthusiasm of Humanity ...
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... mind . He is littérateur , bio- grapher , man of science , and philosopher . In all these capacities he is known as an author ; in all he has achieved considerable reputation : it may be questioned whether in any of them he has reached ...
... mind . He is littérateur , bio- grapher , man of science , and philosopher . In all these capacities he is known as an author ; in all he has achieved considerable reputation : it may be questioned whether in any of them he has reached ...
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... mind as Comte's would , no doubt , have passed independently from the revolution- ary to the organic attitude ; but , as a matter of fact , it made this transition under Saint - Simon's influence . It is unnecessary , as M. Littré says ...
... mind as Comte's would , no doubt , have passed independently from the revolution- ary to the organic attitude ; but , as a matter of fact , it made this transition under Saint - Simon's influence . It is unnecessary , as M. Littré says ...
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... mind like his - the triumphant elaboration of a great system of thought which he believed destined to regen- erate the world . He was so entirely absorbed in his task that he studied nothing else . On system he even abstained from ...
... mind like his - the triumphant elaboration of a great system of thought which he believed destined to regen- erate the world . He was so entirely absorbed in his task that he studied nothing else . On system he even abstained from ...
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... mind , and with all the pretensions which he advanced for it.1 For our purpose , however , it is necessary to con ... minds . Furthermore , it is impossible , without some definite review of his phil- osophy , to understand Comte's real ...
... mind , and with all the pretensions which he advanced for it.1 For our purpose , however , it is necessary to con ... minds . Furthermore , it is impossible , without some definite review of his phil- osophy , to understand Comte's real ...
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Agnosticism argument Arnold Auguste Comte basis betwixt Blackwood's Magazine Caro character Christian Comte Comte's conception consciousness criticism Crown 8vo Democritus Divine doctrine dogma Dr Tyndall Edinburgh essay ethical existence experience external facts Fcap feeling Ferrier force German Gravenhurst Greek Philosophy Hartmann higher History human Hume idea ideal Illustrations intellectual intelligence Kant Kant's Kantian knowledge Königsberg Kritik language Lectures less LL.D logical materialistic matter meaning ment merely metaphysical mind modern moral nature never object perception Pessimism phenomena philosophy physical Positive Positivism Positivist Post 8vo principle privat-docent Professor question reality reason recognise religion religious righteousness says Schopenhauer scientific Scotland Scottish Second Edition sense Sir William Hamilton speculation sphere spiritual supposed Theism theology theory things thinker Thorndale thought tion Translated true truth University University of Edinburgh vols volume whole WILLIAM BLACKWOOD words writings
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Page 303 - All things are delivered unto me of my Father, and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.
Page 158 - But the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously; we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently any rudiment of the organ, which would enable us to pass, by a process of reasoning, from the one to the other.
Page 295 - Governor of the universe," is to talk what appears to him unverifiable nonsense. But to talk of God as " the stream of tendency by which all things fulfil the law of their being...