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... awakened to the political and social problems of his time , and the necessity of meeting 1 Préface Personelle , p . vi . 1 them by some new philosophical method . Obviously the strength 10 AUGUSTE COMTE AND POSITIVISM .
... awakened to the political and social problems of his time , and the necessity of meeting 1 Préface Personelle , p . vi . 1 them by some new philosophical method . Obviously the strength 10 AUGUSTE COMTE AND POSITIVISM .
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... to communicate itself to a young and ardent spirit , and to give a general direction , if not a special form , to his social and political ideas . M. Littré and Mr Lewes both admit so much . 12 AUGUSTE COMTE AND POSITIVISM .
... to communicate itself to a young and ardent spirit , and to give a general direction , if not a special form , to his social and political ideas . M. Littré and Mr Lewes both admit so much . 12 AUGUSTE COMTE AND POSITIVISM .
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... Social Evolution , and announced it to the world under the title , " Plan des travaux scientifiques nécessaires pour réorganiser la Société . " The essay formed a part of one of Saint- Simon's volumes , and Comte's name did not even ...
... Social Evolution , and announced it to the world under the title , " Plan des travaux scientifiques nécessaires pour réorganiser la Société . " The essay formed a part of one of Saint- Simon's volumes , and Comte's name did not even ...
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... social relations , above all , which established a spiritual power , was in all its chief functions identical with a religion . " 1 It was the distinguishing glory of Positivism , according to Comte's own boast , that it not only ...
... social relations , above all , which established a spiritual power , was in all its chief functions identical with a religion . " 1 It was the distinguishing glory of Positivism , according to Comte's own boast , that it not only ...
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... social phe- nomenon is , so to speak , a deposit of all previous phenomena . All contribute in some degree to make it what it is , and the difficulty of its investigation , especially in series , or as a constituent of the complex ...
... social phe- nomenon is , so to speak , a deposit of all previous phenomena . All contribute in some degree to make it what it is , and the difficulty of its investigation , especially in series , or as a constituent of the complex ...
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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...