 | Paul Elmer More - 1917 - 332 páginas
...Johnson (the great Socratic of the modern world) in regard to a question of equal ethical importance: "All theory is against the freedom of the will, all experience for it." By demonstrating that the eristical method led to the same absurdity (and so destroyed itself) whether... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1921 - 316 páginas
...forget it," said Boswell, who had read the book; and Johnson closed the discussion with his epigram: "All theory is against the freedom of the will, all experience for it." That is sufficient, no doubt, for the conduct of life; yet there is perhaps another way of escape,... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1921 - 314 páginas
...forget it," said Boswell, who had read the book; and Johnson closed the discussion with his epigram: "All theory is against the freedom of the will, all experience for it." That is sufficient, no doubt, for the conduct of life; yet there is perhaps another way of escape,... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1921 - 518 páginas
...forget it," said Boswell, who had read the book; and Johnson closed the discussion with his epigram: "All theory is against the freedom of the will, all experience for it." That is sufficient, no doubt, for the conduct of life; yet there is perhaps another way of escape,... | |
 | William Peterfield Trent, John Erskine, Stuart Pratt Sherman, Carl Van Doren - 1922 - 456 páginas
...forget it," said Boswell, who had read the book; and Johnson closed the discussion with his epigram: "All theory is against the freedom of the will, all experience for it. " That is sufficient, no doubt, for the conduct of life ; yet there is perhaps another way of escape,... | |
 | William Peterfield Trent, John Erskine, Stuart Pratt Sherman, Carl Van Doren - 1923 - 456 páginas
...forget it," said Boswell, who had read the book; and Johnson closed the discussion with his epigram: "All theory is against the freedom of the will, all experience for it." That is sufficient, no doubt, for the conduct of life; yet there is perhaps another way of escape,... | |
 | George Gordon Coulton - 1923 - 676 páginas
...this is one of the eight great snares of the devil. 1 P. xi, 18; cf. Boswell, Ap. 15, 1778: "Johnson. All theory is against the freedom of the will, all experience for it." more cheerful for that revelation, and stronger in his work, labouring manfully; and, going on from... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 928 páginas
...there can be afterwards any contingency dependent upon the exercise of will or anything else." JOHNSON: "All theory is against the freedom of the will; 'all...generally would not suffer to be in any degree opposed. 50 I .said to him [Johnson] that it was certainly true, as my friend Dempster had observed in his letter... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 924 páginas
...there can be afterwards any contingency dependent upon the exercise of will or anything else." JOHNSON: "All theory is against the freedom of the will; all...generally would not suffer to be in any degree opposed. S0 I said to him [Johnson] that it was certainly true, as my friend Dempster had observed in his letter... | |
 | Lee Clark Mitchell - 1989 - 212 páginas
...the world of events while emotion everywhere strives to free us, leading Dr. Johnson to assert that: "All theory is against the freedom of the will; all experience for it."30 Yet there is a far greater paradox, as Thomas Nagel has recently pointed out, in this clash... | |
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... to certainty, freedom ceases, because that cannot be certainly foreknown which is not certain at the time; but if it be certain at the time, it is a contradiction in terms to maintain that there can be afterwards any contingency dependent upon the... 
