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... regard to the all - important point , -the selection of Professors , may be chosen as an example . Here the Commissioners , taking no general survey of the ends to be accomplished , and of the means to be adopted for the accomplishment ...
... regard to the all - important point , -the selection of Professors , may be chosen as an example . Here the Commissioners , taking no general survey of the ends to be accomplished , and of the means to be adopted for the accomplishment ...
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... regards as at once the condition and the end of philosophy ; and it is on the discovery of this principle in the fact of ... regard as true ; the second is held by Kant ; the third by Schelling ; * and the last by our author . 1. In our ...
... regards as at once the condition and the end of philosophy ; and it is on the discovery of this principle in the fact of ... regard as true ; the second is held by Kant ; the third by Schelling ; * and the last by our author . 1. In our ...
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... regard to Kant as he is in regard to Aristotle ; but we presume that he wishes , under that term , to include not only the " Categories of Understanding , " but the " Ideas of Reason . " + But Kant limits knowledge to experience , and ...
... regard to Kant as he is in regard to Aristotle ; but we presume that he wishes , under that term , to include not only the " Categories of Understanding , " but the " Ideas of Reason . " + But Kant limits knowledge to experience , and ...
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... regard to Kant as he is in regard to Aristotle ; but we presume that he wishes , under that term , to include not only the " Categories of Understanding , " but the " Ideas of Reason . " + But Kant limits knowledge to experience , and ...
... regard to Kant as he is in regard to Aristotle ; but we presume that he wishes , under that term , to include not only the " Categories of Understanding , " but the " Ideas of Reason . " + But Kant limits knowledge to experience , and ...
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... regard the Unconditioned as a posi- tive and indivisible notion , must show that this notion coincides either , 1 ° , with the notion of the Absolute , to the exclusion of the Infinite ; or 2 ° , with the notion of the Infinite , to the ...
... regard the Unconditioned as a posi- tive and indivisible notion , must show that this notion coincides either , 1 ° , with the notion of the Absolute , to the exclusion of the Infinite ; or 2 ° , with the notion of the Infinite , to the ...
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Page 278 - ... with their correlatives freedom of choice and responsibility — man being all this, it is at once obvious that the principal part of his being is his mental power. In Nature there is nothing great but Man, In Man there is nothing great but Mind.
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Page 483 - An instructed and intelligent people, besides, are always more decent and orderly than an ignorant and stupid one. They feel themselves, each individually, more respectable, and more likely to obtain the respect of their lawful superiors, and they are therefore more disposed to respect those superiors. They are more disposed to examine, and more capable of seeing through, the interested complaints of faction and sedition...
Page 278 - Whilst I study to find how I am a microcosm, or little world, I find myself something more than the great. There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun. Nature tells me I am the image of God, as well as Scripture. He that understands not thus much hath not his introduction, or first lesson, and is yet to begin the alphabet of man.
Page 14 - As the conditionally limited (which we may briefly call the conditioned) is thus the only possible object of knowledge and of positive thought — thought necessarily supposes conditions. To think is to condition ; and conditional limitation is the fundamental law of the possibility of thought.
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Page 279 - Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe need not arm itself to crush him. A vapour, a drop of water suffices to kill him. But, if the universe were to crush him, man would still be more noble than that which killed him, because he knows that he dies and the advantage which the universe has over him; the universe knows nothing of this.
Page 53 - When I concentrate my attention in the simplest act of perception, I return from my observation with the most irresistible conviction of two facts, or rather two branches of the same fact; that I am, and that something different from me exists. In this act I am conscious of myself as the perceiving subject, and of an external reality as the object perceived; and I am conscious of both existences in the same indivisible moment of intuition.
Page 278 - The former view of a countless multitude of worlds annihilates as it were my importance as an animal creature...