Anti-theistic Theories: Being the Baird Lecture for 1877W. Blackwood and sons, 1879 - 555 páginas |
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... Second Edition . Crown octavo , 7s . 6d . THE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY IN EUROPE . Vol . I. , containing the HISTORY OF THAT PHILOSOPHY IN FRANCE AND GERMANY . Octavo , 15s . WILLIAM BLACKWOOD & SONS , Edinburgh and London . ANTI ...
... Second Edition . Crown octavo , 7s . 6d . THE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY IN EUROPE . Vol . I. , containing the HISTORY OF THAT PHILOSOPHY IN FRANCE AND GERMANY . Octavo , 15s . WILLIAM BLACKWOOD & SONS , Edinburgh and London . ANTI ...
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... second place , the hypothesis of a certain degree of spontaneity in the atoms recommended itself to the Epicureans as a warrant for rejecting fatalism , and as an explanation of freewill in living things . Epicurus pronounced the ...
... second place , the hypothesis of a certain degree of spontaneity in the atoms recommended itself to the Epicureans as a warrant for rejecting fatalism , and as an explanation of freewill in living things . Epicurus pronounced the ...
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... second causes scattered , it may sometimes rest in them , and go no farther ; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together , it must needs fly to Providence and Deity . Nay , even that school which is most ...
... second causes scattered , it may sometimes rest in them , and go no farther ; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together , it must needs fly to Providence and Deity . Nay , even that school which is most ...
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... second generation who devoted themselves to its advocacy were fanatically zealous in its behalf ; but they were also wholly destitute of originality , or even ingenuity , and without literary talent of any kind . Perhaps the best ...
... second generation who devoted themselves to its advocacy were fanatically zealous in its behalf ; but they were also wholly destitute of originality , or even ingenuity , and without literary talent of any kind . Perhaps the best ...
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... second place , that idealism itself led to materialism . This was espe- cially the case in Germany , where idealism had for a considerable time the field almost entirely to itself . Fichte , Schelling , Hegel , reigned in succes- sion ...
... second place , that idealism itself led to materialism . This was espe- cially the case in Germany , where idealism had for a considerable time the field almost entirely to itself . Fichte , Schelling , Hegel , reigned in succes- sion ...
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absolute unity absolutely infinite admit affirms animal answer Appendix argument assertion atheism atoms attributes believe Bradlaugh Brahma Buddha Buddhism called cause Christianity Comte conceived consciousness creation Crown 8vo definite deism Deity Democritus deny distinct Divine doctrine Edition Epicureans Epicurus essentially eternal evil existence explain fact Fcap finite force Hegel Holyoake idea ignorance implies infinite intellect intelligence J. S. Mill kind knowledge lecture Lepchas living logically Lucretius maintained materialism materialistic matter mental merely monism moral nature necessarily never Nirvana notion object origin pantheism person pessimism phenomena philosophy physical science polytheism positivism positivist present principles Professor proved reason regard religion religious represented scepticism Schopenhauer scientific secularism secularist self-existent sensation sense Sir John Lubbock soul Spinoza spirit substance supposed Supreme theology theory things thought tion tribes true truth uncon universe vols whole 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 454 - Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?