The Works of Dugald Stewart: Dissertation exhibiting a general view of the progress of metaphysical, ethical and political philosophy, since the revival of letters in EuropeHilliard and Brown, 1829 |
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... Speculations of Newton and Clarke . - Digression with respect to the System of Spinoza . - Collins and Jona- than Edwards . - Anxiety of both to recon- cile the Scheme of Necessity with Man's Moral Agency . - Departure of some later ...
... Speculations of Newton and Clarke . - Digression with respect to the System of Spinoza . - Collins and Jona- than Edwards . - Anxiety of both to recon- cile the Scheme of Necessity with Man's Moral Agency . - Departure of some later ...
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... speculations which have been hitherto under our review . His veneration for Bacon seems , on this occa- sion , to have prevented him from giving due scope to his own powerful and fertile genius , and has engaged him in the fruitless ...
... speculations which have been hitherto under our review . His veneration for Bacon seems , on this occa- sion , to have prevented him from giving due scope to his own powerful and fertile genius , and has engaged him in the fruitless ...
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... most considerable under this head is Ethics , which is the seeking out those rules and measures of human actions which lead to happiness , and the means to practise them . The end of this is not bare speculation PREFACE . 15.
... most considerable under this head is Ethics , which is the seeking out those rules and measures of human actions which lead to happiness , and the means to practise them . The end of this is not bare speculation PREFACE . 15.
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Dugald Stewart. them . The end of this is not bare speculation , but right , and a conduct suitable to it . * “ 3. Enμɛiwtixn , or the doctrine of signs , the most usual whereof being words , it is aptly enough termed also Дoyixn , Logic ...
Dugald Stewart. them . The end of this is not bare speculation , but right , and a conduct suitable to it . * “ 3. Enμɛiwtixn , or the doctrine of signs , the most usual whereof being words , it is aptly enough termed also Дoyixn , Logic ...
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... speculations concerning the human mind , and is by no means destitute of merit . The publication was anonymous ; but I have rea- son to believe that the author was the late well known Governor Pownall . VOL . VI . 3 man mind , it is ...
... speculations concerning the human mind , and is by no means destitute of merit . The publication was anonymous ; but I have rea- son to believe that the author was the late well known Governor Pownall . VOL . VI . 3 man mind , it is ...
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Página 474 - And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation ; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you ; as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
Página 278 - Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees ; Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Página 143 - ... for wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully, one from another, ideas, wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another.
Página 476 - I think it is easy to draw this observation, that the ideas of primary qualities of bodies, are resemblances of them, and their patterns do really exist in the bodies themselves; but the ideas, produced in us by these secondary qualities, have no resemblance of them at all. There is nothing like our ideas, existing in the bodies themselves.
Página 415 - But this universal and primary opinion of all men is soon destroyed by the slightest philosophy which teaches us that nothing can ever be present to the mind but an image or perception...
Página 391 - Tis evident, that all the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature ; and that however wide any of them may seem to run from it, they still return back by one passage or another. Even Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, and Natural Religion, are in some measure dependent on the science of MAN ; since they lie under the cognizance of men, and are judged of by their powers and faculties.
Página 195 - Were it fit to trouble thee with the history of this Essay, I should tell thee, that five or six friends meeting at my chamber, and discoursing on a subject very remote from this, found themselves quickly at a stand, by the difficulties that rose on every side.
Página 400 - ... all our reasonings concerning causes and effects are derived from nothing but custom, and that belief is more properly an act of the sensitive than of the cogitative part of our natures.
Página 404 - One event follows another; but we never can observe any tie between them. They seem conjoined, but never connected. And as we can have no idea of any thing which never appeared to our outward sense or inward sentiment, the necessary conclusion seems to be, that we have no idea of connexion or power at all, and that these words are absolutely without any meaning, when employed either in philosophical reasonings or common life.
Página 240 - As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.