The Journal of speculative philosophy: Ed. by Wm. T. Harris. microform, Volume 6[etc.] D. Appleton, 1872 - Philosophy |
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... assertion sets out from mind . The utilitarian will be most astonished when he examines the manifold applications that the German scientific explor- ers have made with this idealistic method of ascertaining the mental equivalent of ...
... assertion sets out from mind . The utilitarian will be most astonished when he examines the manifold applications that the German scientific explor- ers have made with this idealistic method of ascertaining the mental equivalent of ...
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... assertion that Thought and Being are iden- tical , Idealism confronts the profession of Realism that the nature of things is unknowable . Although Idealism has sometimes ventured to assert this , it does not necessarily fol- low that it ...
... assertion that Thought and Being are iden- tical , Idealism confronts the profession of Realism that the nature of things is unknowable . Although Idealism has sometimes ventured to assert this , it does not necessarily fol- low that it ...
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... assertion that Thought , as it is , is iden- tical with Being , and capable of absorbing it without any residue ; in all instances there rather remain unabsorbed , in its ideal flow , the particular traces which mark the special ...
... assertion that Thought , as it is , is iden- tical with Being , and capable of absorbing it without any residue ; in all instances there rather remain unabsorbed , in its ideal flow , the particular traces which mark the special ...
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... assertion merely , that a single highest Idea permeates all phenomena of the actual world with its formative and authoritative principles , without explaining how . And for the very reason that Ideal- ism could at most but seize upon ...
... assertion merely , that a single highest Idea permeates all phenomena of the actual world with its formative and authoritative principles , without explaining how . And for the very reason that Ideal- ism could at most but seize upon ...
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... assertion and counter - assertion of opposite half truths can never avail to silence either - but speculative thought has meanwhile advanced to Synthesis , and calls on the world to follow it . The philosophy which began in the last ...
... assertion and counter - assertion of opposite half truths can never avail to silence either - but speculative thought has meanwhile advanced to Synthesis , and calls on the world to follow it . The philosophy which began in the last ...
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absolute abstract activity affirms antithesis appears Aristotle assertion becomes Brutus Cæsar called causality cause character cognition conception consciousness constitute contemplation contradiction culture determined dialectic method doctrine Education empiricism essence ethical existence experience expression external fact faculty force freedom German Hegel Hegelian Hence honor human idea ideal identity immediate individual infinite J. G. FICHTE judgment Julius Cæsar Kant knowledge Logical Investigations matter means merely metaphysics mind moral nations nature necessary necessity negation negative object opposite Pantheism Parmenides particular perception person phenomena Phenomenology Philosophy Plato Portia positive possible present principle priori produces Prussia pure reality realization reason relation religion result sciousness Secret of Hegel self-consciousness sensation sense sensuous Shylock Spinozism spirit stand-point sublate syllogism synthetic things thinking thought tion true truth unity universal Universology vidual whole words
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Page 246 - How that might change his nature, there's the question. It is the bright day that brings forth the adder; And that craves wary walking. Crown him? — That; — And then, I grant, we put a sting in him, That at his will he may do danger with.
Page 136 - It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes : 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown. His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ; But mercy is above this sceptred sway : It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself, And earthly power doth then show likest God's, When mercy seasons justice.
Page 247 - tis a common proof That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber.upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend. So Caesar may. Then lest he may, prevent.
Page 246 - It must be by his death : and, for my part, I know no personal cause to spurn at him, But for the general. He would be crown'd : — How that might change his nature, there's the question : It is the bright day that brings forth the adder ; And that craves wary walking.
Page 320 - 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.
Page 137 - That, in the course of justice, none of us Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy; And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.
Page 251 - This was the noblest Roman of them all; All the conspirators save only he Did that they did in envy of great Caesar; He only, in a general honest thought, And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man!
Page 249 - Here comes his body, mourned by Mark Antony: who, though he had no hand in his death , shall receive the benefit of his dying, a place in the commonwealth ; As which of you shall not ? With this I depart ; That, as I slew my bes't lover" for the good of Rome, I have the same dagger for myself, when it shall please my country to need my death.
Page 245 - My country — may she ever be right; but, right or wrong, my country.
Page 288 - We have no knowledge of anything but phenomena ; (and our knowledge of phenomena is relative not absolute.) We know not the essence nor the real mode of production of any fact, but only its relations to other facts in the way of succession, or of similitude. These relations are constant, that is, always the same in the same circumstances. The constant resemblances which link phenomena together and the constant sequences which unite them as antecedent and consequent, are termed their laws. The laws...