The mind is a kind of theatre, where several perceptions successively make their appearance ; pass, repass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations. A Treatise of Human Nature - Page 251by David Hume - 1888 - 709 pagesFull view - About this book
| Alasdair C. MacIntyre - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 220 pages
...given in and by perception. "The mind is a kind of theatre, where several perceptions successfully make their appearance; pass, re-pass, glide away,...may have to imagine that simplicity and identity" (p. 253). Imagination leads us into philosophical error, so that while the self is nothing but "a succession... | |
| Sophie Tomlinson - Drama - 2005 - 324 pages
...Newcastle So full of shapes is fancy, That it alone is high fantastical. Twelfth Night (1.1.14-15) The mind is a kind of theatre, where several perceptions...in an infinite variety of postures and situations.' In one of her Sociable Letters (1664) written during her exile from the English Protectorate with her... | |
| Thomas Pfau - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 604 pages
...Godwin's epistemology largely recapitulates Hume's, such as in the latter's characterization of "mind [as] a kind of theatre, where several perceptions successively...in an infinite variety of postures and situations" (Hume 2000, 253). 36. This being the case, it is interesting that a translation quickly appeared in... | |
| Heiko Joosten - Ethics, Modern - 2005 - 302 pages
...Sicht des Selbst als Theater einzuwenden zu haben, wenn er bemerkt, daß dies Theater ein Ort sei, „where several perceptions successively make their...in an infinite variety of postures and situations." So könne man schließlich das begrenzte Interesse am Wohlergehen des anderen einfach als selbstinteressierte... | |
| Stanley Cavell - Social Science - 2005 - 432 pages
...goes on to say, fascinatingly, that "The mind is a kind of theater," glossing this as emphasizing that "perceptions successively make their appearance, pass,...re-pass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of ways. There is properly no simplicity in it at one time, nor identity in different." 24 But what isn't... | |
| Franz Michael Maier - Aesthetics - 2006 - 342 pages
...Human Nature (1739) hin. Humes Bestimmung des empiristischen Konzeptes von „mind" in diesem Kapitel: „The mind is a kind of theatre, where several perceptions...in an infinite variety of postures and situations" kann als Grund-Satz von Schopenhauers Kapitel Von den wesentlichen Unvollkommenheiten des Intellekts... | |
| Alasdair C. MacIntyre - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 212 pages
...given in and by perception. "The mind is a kind of theatre, where several perceptions successfully make their appearance; pass, re-pass, glide away,...may have to imagine that simplicity and identity" (p. 253). Imagination leads us into philosophical error, so that while the self is nothing but "a succession... | |
| Joel Faflak - Literary Criticism - 2009 - 336 pages
...Enlightenment anxiety about the subject returns in Romanticism. ONE THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE ROMANTIC SUBJECT The mind is a kind of theatre, where several perceptions...in an infinite variety of postures and situations. — David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature The point of excess for the imagination ... is like an abyss... | |
| Evan Gottlieb - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 282 pages
...there is simultaneously too much and too little of the self in it.26 Despite his famous assertion that "the mind is a kind of theatre, where several perceptions...in an infinite variety of postures and situations" (253), Hume admits that the idea of the self is a habit that cannot be broken because of humanity's... | |
| William James - Psychology - 2007 - 709 pages
...contribute to this change; nor is there any single power of the soul which remains unalterably the same, perhaps for one moment. The mind is a kind of theatre,...their appearance; pass, repass, glide away and mingle ia an infinite variety of postures and situations. There is properly no simplicity in it at one time,... | |
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