Discussions on Philosophy and Literature, Education and University Reform: Chiefly from the Edinburgh Review; Cor., Vindicated, Enl., in Notes and Appendices |
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... but a God destitute of true virtue is an empty name . " - So Jacobi : - " From the enjoyment of virtue springs 1 this knowledge is competent to human reason , as identical SCHELLING'S DOCTRINE OF THE UNCONDITIONED . 19.
... but a God destitute of true virtue is an empty name . " - So Jacobi : - " From the enjoyment of virtue springs 1 this knowledge is competent to human reason , as identical SCHELLING'S DOCTRINE OF THE UNCONDITIONED . 19.
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... competent to human reason , as identical with the Absolute itself . In this act of knowledge , ( which , after Fichte , he calls the Intellectual Intuition * ) , there exists no distinction of subject and object , -no contrast of ...
... competent to human reason , as identical with the Absolute itself . In this act of knowledge , ( which , after Fichte , he calls the Intellectual Intuition * ) , there exists no distinction of subject and object , -no contrast of ...
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... competent to the Unconditioned , is impersonal , infinite , divine.- But while they coincide in the fact of the Absolute , as known , they are diametrically opposed as to the mode in which they attempt to realise this knowledge ; each ...
... competent to the Unconditioned , is impersonal , infinite , divine.- But while they coincide in the fact of the Absolute , as known , they are diametrically opposed as to the mode in which they attempt to realise this knowledge ; each ...
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... competent and candid a judge not fully to acknow- ledge the deficiency . * But Reid's merits as a thinker are too high , and too securely established , to make it necessary to claim for his reputation an erudition to which he himself ...
... competent and candid a judge not fully to acknow- ledge the deficiency . * But Reid's merits as a thinker are too high , and too securely established , to make it necessary to claim for his reputation an erudition to which he himself ...
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... competent witness against Reid , he is however valid evidence against Brown . Hobbes , though a materialist , admitted no knowledge of an ex- ternal world . Like his friend Sorbiere , he was a kind of mate- rial idealist . According to ...
... competent witness against Reid , he is however valid evidence against Brown . Hobbes , though a materialist , admitted no knowledge of an ex- ternal world . Like his friend Sorbiere , he was a kind of mate- rial idealist . According to ...
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Page 308 - ... 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.
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.