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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... principle of this doctrine , it is in Reason alone that truth and reality are to be found . Experience affords only the occasions on which intelligence reveals to us the necessary and universal notions of which it is the complement ...
... principle of this doctrine , it is in Reason alone that truth and reality are to be found . Experience affords only the occasions on which intelligence reveals to us the necessary and universal notions of which it is the complement ...
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... principles which determined the creation are found still to govern the worlds of matter and mind . Two Ideas and ... principles and their correlation ; and these principles are again the One or the Infinite , —the Many or the Finite ...
... principles which determined the creation are found still to govern the worlds of matter and mind . Two Ideas and ... principles and their correlation ; and these principles are again the One or the Infinite , —the Many or the Finite ...
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... principle , we shall confine ourselves exclusively to a consideration of M. Cousin's system , viewed absolutely in itself , This , indeed , we are afraid will prove comparatively irksome ; and , therefore , solicit indul- gence , not ...
... principle , we shall confine ourselves exclusively to a consideration of M. Cousin's system , viewed absolutely in itself , This , indeed , we are afraid will prove comparatively irksome ; and , therefore , solicit indul- gence , not ...
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... principle of intelligence , our author regards as at once the condition and the end of philosophy ; and it is on the discovery of this principle in the fact of conscious- ness , that he vindicates to himself the glory of being the ...
... principle of intelligence , our author regards as at once the condition and the end of philosophy ; and it is on the discovery of this principle in the fact of conscious- ness , that he vindicates to himself the glory of being the ...
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... principle of speculation ; but from the dawn of philosophy in the school of Elea until the rise of the Kantian ... principles , than an inquiry concerning principles themselves . At the head of every system a cognition figured , which ...
... principle of speculation ; but from the dawn of philosophy in the school of Elea until the rise of the Kantian ... principles , than an inquiry concerning principles themselves . At the head of every system a cognition figured , which ...
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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.