The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart, Volumen1Books on Demand, 1854 - 480 páginas |
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... Descartes . - Gassendi . - Malebranche , SECT . 3. Progress of Philosophy during the Seventeenth Century in some parts of Europe not included in the preceding Review , $ 35 63 79 85 98 112 170 PART SECOND . - INTRODUCTION , 203 Progress ...
... Descartes . - Gassendi . - Malebranche , SECT . 3. Progress of Philosophy during the Seventeenth Century in some parts of Europe not included in the preceding Review , $ 35 63 79 85 98 112 170 PART SECOND . - INTRODUCTION , 203 Progress ...
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... Descartes ; meditations which , in the order of time , have been uniformly posterior to the study of external nature ; and which , even in such an age as the present , are confined to a comparatively small number of recluse meta ...
... Descartes ; meditations which , in the order of time , have been uniformly posterior to the study of external nature ; and which , even in such an age as the present , are confined to a comparatively small number of recluse meta ...
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... Descartes in his second Meditation : - " Imaginari nihil aliud est quam rei corporeæ figuram seu imaginem contemplari ; ” — a power of the mind , which ( as I have elsewhere observed ) appears to me to be most precisely expressed in our ...
... Descartes in his second Meditation : - " Imaginari nihil aliud est quam rei corporeæ figuram seu imaginem contemplari ; ” — a power of the mind , which ( as I have elsewhere observed ) appears to me to be most precisely expressed in our ...
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... Descartes in Physics , or than Hobbes in Morals ! And yet , if the one be compared with Bacon and the other with Campanella , the former writers seem to grovel upon the earth- the latter to soar to the heavens , by the vastness of their ...
... Descartes in Physics , or than Hobbes in Morals ! And yet , if the one be compared with Bacon and the other with Campanella , the former writers seem to grovel upon the earth- the latter to soar to the heavens , by the vastness of their ...
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... Descartes , and Locke , to strike at the very roots of the system . His copious and not inelegant style as a writer , recommended his innovations to those who were dis- gusted with the barbarism of the schools ; while his avowed ...
... Descartes , and Locke , to strike at the very roots of the system . His copious and not inelegant style as a writer , recommended his innovations to those who were dis- gusted with the barbarism of the schools ; while his avowed ...
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Página 223 - Secondly, the other fountain, from which experience furnisheth the understanding with ideas, is the perception of the operations of our own mind within us, as it is employed about the ideas it has got; which operations, when the soul comes to reflect on and consider, do furnish the understanding with another set of ideas, which could not be had from things without ; and such are Perception, Thinking, Doubting, Believing, Reasoning, Knowing, Willing, and all the different actings of our own minds...
Página 456 - SINCE the mind, in all its thoughts and reasonings, hath no other immediate object but its own ideas, which it alone does or can contemplate ; it is evident, that our knowledge is only conversant about them.
Página 575 - 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 224 - This source of ideas every man has wholly in himself; and though it be not sense, as having nothing to do with external objects, yet it is very like it, and might properly enough be called internal sense...
Página 427 - Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press, without reaching such distinction, as even to excite a murmur among the zealots.
Página 254 - I suppose it may be of use to prevail with the busy mind of man to be more cautious in meddling with things exceeding its comprehension; to stop when it is at the utmost extent of its tether; and to sit down in a quiet ignorance of those things which, upon examination, are found to be beyond the reach of our capacities.
Página 205 - 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 439 - ... 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 443 - 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 579 - In short, our Souls are at present delightfully lost and bewildered in a pleasing Delusion, and we walk about like the Enchanted Hero of a Romance, who sees beautiful Castles, Woods and Meadows...