Two Lectures on Theism: Delivered on the Occasion of the Sesquicentennial Celebration of Princeton UniversityC. Scribner's sons, 1897 - 64 páginas |
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Two Lectures on Theism: Delivered on the Occasion of the Sesquicentennial ... Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison Visualização integral - 1897 |
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abso abstract agnostic agnosticism antecedents appearance atheistic Bradley Bradley's Brahmanic century certainly conception constructive theory deist denial determine the Absolute difference distinctions divine existence doctrine duty ence endeavors Erigena eternal ethical consciousness evolution experience feeling Fichte finite existence forms fundamental Goethe Hegel Hegelian higher human idea ideal immanence individual infinite insight intellectual interfused Kant's Kantian knowledge LECTURES ON THEISM Leibnitz light lives Locke's logic losophy lute Malebranche mankind mean merely metaphysically modern philosophy moral law nature negative theology ness pantheism philo philosophy of Kant phrase Plotinus point of view Positivists postulate present Prof progress prosaic rational reality realization reason recognize regarded religion revealed Schelling seems self-conscious sense simply sophical species of illusion speculation Spinoza spirit substance system of thought theory things tion transcendence transmuted true truth unity universe UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH vanish vidual virtue Voltaire whole
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Página 25 - All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
Página 64 - AS being past away. — Vain sympathies ! For, backward, Duddon ! as I cast my eyes, I see what was, and is, and will abide ; Still glides the Stream, and shall for ever glide ; The Form remains, the Function never dies...
Página 10 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
Página 64 - Still glides the stream, and shall for ever glide; The Form remains, the Function never dies; While we, the brave, the mighty, and the wise, We Men, who in our morn of youth defied The elements, must vanish; — be it so! Enough, if something from our hands have power To live, and act, and serve the future hour; And if, as toward the silent tomb we go, Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower, We feel that we are greater than we know.
Página 20 - It can therefore be said that this content is the exposition of God as he is in his eternal essence before the creation of nature and a finite mind.
Página 52 - This whole contains diversity, and, on the other hand, is not parted by relations. Such an experience, we must admit, is most imperfect and unstable, and its inconsistencies lead us at once to transcend it. Indeed, we hardly possess it as more than that which we are in the act of losing.
Página 10 - ... the true ground of morality ; which can only be the will and law of a God, who sees men in the dark, has in his hand rewards and punishments, a'nd power enough to call to account the proudest offender.
Página 47 - the fountain light of all our day, the master light of all our seeing.
Página 60 - ... as Matthew Arnold used to say, at a vast reality. But both religion and the higher poetry — just because they give up the pretence of an impossible exactitude — carry us, I cannot doubt, nearer to the meaning of the world than the formulae of an abstract metaphysics.
Página 53 - But it serves to suggest to us the general idea of a total experience, where will and thought and feeling may all once more be one.