An Examination of Mr. J.S. Mill's Philosophy: Being a Defence of Fundamental TruthMacmillan, 1866 - 406 Seiten |
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abstract according action admit allow apprehension Aristotle asso association of ideas attribute Bain belief body causation cause chapter co-exist colour Comprehension conceive conception consciousness conviction declare discover doctrine effect elements error evidence existence Extension external facts faculties give given Herbert Spencer Hume identity implies induction inference intuitive J. S. Mill James Mill judgment Julius Cæsar Kant knowledge laws of thought Logic look means mental metaphysicians metaphysics Mill Mill's mind moral muscular sense nature necessity ness never notion noumenon objects observation operations original particular perceived perception persons phenomena philosophy phrase points position possibility of sensations predicate premisses present principles proposition psychological reality reasoning regard Reid relation relativity of knowledge resemblance sations sciousness series of feelings Sir William Hamilton space statement supposed sure syllogism theory things tion truth utilitarianism whole
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Seite 386 - Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, and saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.
Seite 357 - The intense view of these manifold contradictions and imperfections in human reason has so wrought upon me, and heated my brain, that I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning, and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another.
Seite 369 - The internal sanction of duty, whatever our standard of duty may be, is one and the same — a feeling in our own mind ; a pain, more or less intense, attendant on violation of duty, which in properly cultivated moral natures rises, in the more serious cases, into shrinking from it as an impossibility.
Seite 20 - This part of knowledge is irresistible, and like bright sunshine forces itself immediately to be perceived, as soon as ever the mind turns its view that way ; and leaves no room for hesitation, doubt, or examination, but the mind is presently filled with the clear light of it.
Seite 385 - Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.
Seite 86 - Mind as a series of feelings, we are obliged to complete the statement by calling it a series of feelings which is aware of itself as past and future; and we are reduced to the alternative of believing that the Mind, or Ego, is something different from any series of feelings, or possibilities of them, or of accepting the paradox, that something which ex hypothesi is but a series of feelings, can be aware of itself as a series.
Seite 300 - Things which coexist with the same thing coexist with one another," and — " A thing which coexists with another thing, with which other a third thing does not coexist, is not coexistent with that third thing.
Seite 370 - ... derived from sympathy, from love, and still more from fear ; from all the forms of religious feeling ; from the recollections of childhood and of all our past life ; from selfesteem, desire of the esteem of others, and occasionally even self-abasement.
Seite 59 - There is no knowledge a priori; no truths cognizable by the mind's inward light, and grounded on intuitive evidence. Sensation, and the mind's consciousness of its own acts, are not only the exclusive sources, but the sole materials, of our knowledge.
Seite 88 - The true incomprehensibility, perhaps, is that something which has ceased, or is not yet in existence, can still be, in a manner present; that a series of feelings, the infinitely greater part of which is past or future, can be gathered up as it were into a single present conception, accompanied by a belief of reality.