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... actions , and remove the very conception of contingency , i . e . that any thing should be contrary to reason . Hegel's view is , that the succession of the systems of philosophy which have appeared in history , corresponds to the ...
... actions , and remove the very conception of contingency , i . e . that any thing should be contrary to reason . Hegel's view is , that the succession of the systems of philosophy which have appeared in history , corresponds to the ...
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... actions . The Protagorean sentence that " the man is the measure of all things " became practically carried out only too faithfully , and the influence of the orator in the assemblies of the people and the courts , the corruptibility of ...
... actions . The Protagorean sentence that " the man is the measure of all things " became practically carried out only too faithfully , and the influence of the orator in the assemblies of the people and the courts , the corruptibility of ...
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... action , while piety was looked upon as a statute which some men have enacted and which every one else is justified in using all his elo- quence to change . This degradation of a necessity , which is con- formable to nature and reason ...
... action , while piety was looked upon as a statute which some men have enacted and which every one else is justified in using all his elo- quence to change . This degradation of a necessity , which is con- formable to nature and reason ...
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... action to the fancy and caprice of the individual , had rather referred all to true knowl- edge , to the essence of spirit . It was this idea of knowledge that led him to seek , by the process of thought , to gain a conceivable ...
... action to the fancy and caprice of the individual , had rather referred all to true knowl- edge , to the essence of spirit . It was this idea of knowledge that led him to seek , by the process of thought , to gain a conceivable ...
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... action , he believed , should start as a con- scious action from the conception . From this we might characterize the Socratic method as the skill by which a certain sum of given , homogeneous SOCRATES . 65.
... action , he believed , should start as a con- scious action from the conception . From this we might characterize the Socratic method as the skill by which a certain sum of given , homogeneous SOCRATES . 65.
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Page 5 - Whoever misses reading this book will miss reading what is, in various respects, to the best of our judgment and experience, the most remarkable book of the day — one, indeed, that no thoughtful, inquiring mind would miss reading for a good deal. Let the reader be as adverse as he may be to the writer's philosophy, let him be as devoted to the obstructive as Mr.
Page 5 - ... let him, in short, find his prejudices shocked, at every turn of the argument, and all his prepossessions whistled down the wind — still there is so much in this extraordinary volume to stimulate reflection, and excite to inquiry, and provoke to earnest investigation, perhaps (to this or that reader) on a track hitherto untrodden, and across the virgin soil of unfilled fields, fresh woods and pastures new— that we may fairly defy the most hostile spirit, the most mistrustful and least sympathetic,...
Page 5 - Let the reader be as adverse as he may be to the writer's philosophy, let him be as devoted to the obstructive as Mr. Buckle is to the progress party, let him be as orthodox in church creed as the other is heterodox, as dogmatic as the author is skeptical— let him, in short, find his prejudices shocked at every turn of the argument, and all his prepossessions whistled down the wind — still, there is so...
Page v - Schwegler's History of Philosophy is found in the hands of almost every student in the philosophical department of a German University, and is highly esteemed for its clearness, conciseness, and comprehensiveness. The present translation was undertaken with the conviction that the work would not lose its interest or its value in an English dress, and with the hope that it might be of wider service in such a form to students of philosophy here.
Page 331 - Schelling finds the following meaning, viz. : that the eternal Son of God, born of the essence of the Father of all things, is the finite itself, as it exists in the eternal intuition of God...
Page 5 - When we enter on a more searching criticism of the two writers, it must be admitted that Merivale has as firm a grasp of his subject as Gibbon, and that his work is characterized by a greater freedom from prejudice, and a sounder philosophy.
Page vi - Philosophy is found in the hands of almost every student in the philosophical department of a German University, and is highly esteemed for its clearness, conciseness, and comprehensiveness. The present translation was undertaken with the conviction that the work would not lose its interest or its value in an English dress, and with the hope that it might be of wider service in such a form to students of philosophy here. It was thought especially that a proper translation of this manual would supply...