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... things . M. Cousin is the Apostle of Rationalism in France ; and we are willing to admit that the doctrine could not have obtained a more eloquent or devoted advocate . For philosophy he has suf- fered ; to her ministry he has ...
... things . M. Cousin is the Apostle of Rationalism in France ; and we are willing to admit that the doctrine could not have obtained a more eloquent or devoted advocate . For philosophy he has suf- fered ; to her ministry he has ...
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... Things in themselves , " Matter , Mind , God , ―all , in short , that is not finite , relative , and phænomenal , as bearing no analogy to our faculties , is beyond the verge of our knowledge . Philosophy was thus restricted to the ...
... Things in themselves , " Matter , Mind , God , ―all , in short , that is not finite , relative , and phænomenal , as bearing no analogy to our faculties , is beyond the verge of our knowledge . Philosophy was thus restricted to the ...
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... things , -of two sub- jective negations , converted into objective affirmations . We tire ourselves , either in adding to , or in taking from . Some , more reasonably , call the thing unfinish- able - infinite ; others , less rationally ...
... things , -of two sub- jective negations , converted into objective affirmations . We tire ourselves , either in adding to , or in taking from . Some , more reasonably , call the thing unfinish- able - infinite ; others , less rationally ...
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... things in their multiplicity , —a classifica- tion of objects real , but in relation to thought ; -Kant , an analysis of mind in its unity , -a dissection of thought , pure , but in relation to its objects . The Predicaments of ...
... things in their multiplicity , —a classifica- tion of objects real , but in relation to thought ; -Kant , an analysis of mind in its unity , -a dissection of thought , pure , but in relation to its objects . The Predicaments of ...
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... things ; while the several elements would be also specially excluded , as partial , privative , transcen- dent , & c . But if it would be unjust to criticise the Categories of Kant in whole or in part , by the Aristotelic canons , what ...
... things ; while the several elements would be also specially excluded , as partial , privative , transcen- dent , & c . But if it would be unjust to criticise the Categories of Kant in whole or in part , by the Aristotelic canons , what ...
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Page 308 - ... with their correlatives freedom of choice and responsibility — man being all this, it is at once obvious that the principal part of his being is his mental power. In Nature there is nothing great but Man, In Man there is nothing great but Mind.
Page 14 - As the conditionally limited (which we may briefly call the conditioned) is thus the only possible object of knowledge and of positive thought — thought necessarily supposes conditions. To think is to condition ; and conditional limitation is the fundamental law of the possibility of thought.