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... seek the molecules and the atoms ; in short , those ultimate parts which cannot be analyzed any further . The great French psychologist , Condillac , the pioneer of modern positivism , and the Ger- man realist Herbart , a hundred years ...
... seek the molecules and the atoms ; in short , those ultimate parts which cannot be analyzed any further . The great French psychologist , Condillac , the pioneer of modern positivism , and the Ger- man realist Herbart , a hundred years ...
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... seeks the truth , for our esthetic imagination which aims toward beauty , for our ethical will which strives for the morally good , for our religious emotion which longs for the world of eternity . We should be disloyal to the spirit of ...
... seeks the truth , for our esthetic imagination which aims toward beauty , for our ethical will which strives for the morally good , for our religious emotion which longs for the world of eternity . We should be disloyal to the spirit of ...
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... seek philosophy , we must go down to a deeper layer than to that of the artificial constructions of physics and psychology . The ultimate meaning of life can be ex- pressed only in the purposive terms in which we meet life . - We first ...
... seek philosophy , we must go down to a deeper layer than to that of the artificial constructions of physics and psychology . The ultimate meaning of life can be ex- pressed only in the purposive terms in which we meet life . - We first ...
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... seek that which is fundamental in nature without and consciousness within itself . With special reference to the classes of problems that present themselves to the speculative understanding , philosophy may be said to investigate the ...
... seek that which is fundamental in nature without and consciousness within itself . With special reference to the classes of problems that present themselves to the speculative understanding , philosophy may be said to investigate the ...
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... seeks to reduce them to fundamental principles like substance and causality . That is , he seeks to discover what really is , and what actually takes place . He asks himself whether the ground or substance of the world is something ...
... seeks to reduce them to fundamental principles like substance and causality . That is , he seeks to discover what really is , and what actually takes place . He asks himself whether the ground or substance of the world is something ...
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Page 40 - Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: but I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also. And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain.
Page 53 - Hereby it is manifest that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war, as is of every man against every man.
Page 175 - At a certain stage of their development, the material forces of production in society come in conflict with the existing relations of production...
Page 40 - Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you...
Page 55 - The RIGHT OF NATURE, which writers commonly call jus naturale, is the liberty each man hath, to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life; and consequently, of doing any thing, which in his own judgment, and reason, he shall conceive to be the aptest means thereunto.
Page 175 - The mode of production in material life determines the general character of the social, political, and spiritual processes of life. It is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence, but, on the contrary, their social existence determines their consciousness.
Page 116 - Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion ; during which the matter passes from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity ; and during •which the retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation.
Page 80 - Some truths there are so near and obvious to the mind, that a man need only open his eyes to see them. Such I take this important one to be, to wit, that all the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth, in a word all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world, have not any subsistence without a mind...
Page 77 - Secondly, such qualities which in truth are nothing in the objects themselves, but powers to produce various sensations in us by their primary qualities, ie by the bulk, figure, texture, and motion of their insensible parts, as colours, sounds, tastes, &c.
Page 54 - Where there is no common power, there is no law : where no law, no injustice.