Anti-theistic Theories: Being the Baird Lecture for 1877W. Blackwood and sons, 1879 - 555 páginas |
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... definite meaning . Atheism is essentially irrational when not merely critical . And even when merely critical it is not very rational . This statement is based on the entire argumentation in the previous course of lectures . The chief ...
... definite meaning . Atheism is essentially irrational when not merely critical . And even when merely critical it is not very rational . This statement is based on the entire argumentation in the previous course of lectures . The chief ...
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... definite theory which , whether true or false , cannot be mistaken for any other . In reality it is a general term which has many and discordant applications , and which comprehends a crowd of heterogeneous theories . There are sys ...
... definite theory which , whether true or false , cannot be mistaken for any other . In reality it is a general term which has many and discordant applications , and which comprehends a crowd of heterogeneous theories . There are sys ...
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... definite and clear conception of how that thing came to be what it is . But pseudo - explanations — as , for example , those given of natural phenomena by ancient and scholastic philosophy — are invariably vague and mystical . Can ...
... definite and clear conception of how that thing came to be what it is . But pseudo - explanations — as , for example , those given of natural phenomena by ancient and scholastic philosophy — are invariably vague and mystical . Can ...
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... definite thought , and is generally attained in regard to physical things only with the discovery of exact quantita- tive relations ; but thought , which merely recalls or represents sense , is seldom definite , and even in physical ...
... definite thought , and is generally attained in regard to physical things only with the discovery of exact quantita- tive relations ; but thought , which merely recalls or represents sense , is seldom definite , and even in physical ...
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... definite day not many years ago . The assertion that " matter cannot be destroyed " needs proof , yet receives none . There is no warrant for saying more than that matter cannot be destroyed by natural powers and processes . There can ...
... definite day not many years ago . The assertion that " matter cannot be destroyed " needs proof , yet receives none . There is no warrant for saying more than that matter cannot be destroyed by natural powers and processes . There can ...
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absolute unity absolutely infinite affirm animal argument assertion atheism atoms attributes believe body Bradlaugh Buddha Buddhism called cause Christian Comte conceived consciousness creation Crown 8vo definite deism Deity Democritus deny Descartes distinct Divine doctrine earth Epicurean Epicurus essentially eternal evil existence explain fact Fcap finite force Hegel Holyoake idea ignorance implies infinite intellectual intelligence J. S. Mill kind knowledge lecture Lepchas living logically Lucretius maintain materialism materialistic matter mental merely metaphysical monism moral nature necessarily never notion object origin pantheism person pessimism phenomena philosophy physical science polytheism positivism positivist present principles Professor proved reason regard religion religious scepticism Schopenhauer scientific Second Edition secularism secularist self-existent sense Sir John Lubbock soul Spinoza spirit substance supposed supreme theology theory things thought tion tribes true truth universe University of Edinburgh vols words worship
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Página 160 - That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to. another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man, who has iu philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.
Página 384 - Am I a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off? Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him ? saith the Lord. Do not I fill heaven and earth ? saith the Lord.
Página 172 - ... the passage from the current to the needle, if not demonstrable, is thinkable, and that we entertain no doubt as to the final mechanical solution of the problem. 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...
Página 131 - ... the extension of the province of what we call matter and causation, and the concomitant gradual banishment from all regions of human thought of what we call spirit and spontaneity.
Página 76 - It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. For, while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them and go no further, but, when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.