The World and Its Meaning: An Introduction to PhilosophyHoughton Mifflin, 1924 - 463 páginas |
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The World and Its Meaning: An Introduction to Philosophy George Thomas White Patrick Vista completa - 1924 |
The World and Its Meaning: An Introduction to Philosophy George Thomas White Patrick Vista completa - 1924 |
The World and Its Meaning: An Introduction to Philosophy George Thomas White Patrick Vista completa - 1924 |
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activity adaptive æsthetic animal Aristotle Arthur Thomson atoms beauty behavior believe Bergson biological body C. D. Broad cause chap chapter concepts consciousness coöperation creative Darwin Descartes double-aspect theory Dualism elements energy eternal ethics evil evolution evolutionary existence experience explain F. C. S. Schiller fact force freedom Friedrich Paulsen Greek Henry Holt Holt and Company human Idealism ideas impulse intelligence interest James Josiah Royce Kant kind knowledge L. T. Hobhouse laws living logical Macmillan Company material matter means mechanical mechanistic mental merely metaphysical method modern Monism moral natural selection notion objects organism perhaps philosophy of mind physical Plato pleasure possible Pragmatism Pragmatists present principle problem psychical psychology purpose question Ralph Barton Perry Realism reality relation religion scientific seems sense social soul Space speak species spirit theory things thought tion truth unity Universe values vital whole word
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Página 198 - Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument About it and about : but evermore Came out by the same door where in I went...
Página 181 - The counter our lovers staked was lost As surely as if it were lawful coin : And the sin I impute to each frustrate ghost Is, the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin, Though the end in sight was a vice, I say.
Página 198 - All things are full of labour ; man cannot utter it : the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
Página 391 - The truth of an idea is not a stagnant property inherent in it. Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events.
Página 8 - Strange, is it not? that of the myriads who Before us pass'd the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the Road, ' "* Which to discover we must travel too.
Página 196 - The latest Gospel in this world is, Know thy work and do it. "Know thyself:" long enough has that poor "self" of thine tormented thee; thou wilt never get to "know" it, I believe! Think it not thy business, this of knowing thyself; thou art an unknowable individual: know what thou canst work at; and work at it, like a Hercules! That will be thy better plan. It has been written, "an endless significance lies in Work;" a man perfects himself by working.
Página 188 - It is sweet, when on the great sea the winds trouble its waters, to behold from land another's deep distress ; not that it is a pleasure and delight that any should be afflicted, but because it is sweet to see from what evils you are yourself exempt.
Página 69 - The views of Time and Space, which I have set forth, have their foundation in experimental physics. Therein is their strength. Their tendency is revolutionary. From henceforth space in itself and time in itself sink to mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two preserves an independent existence.
Página 175 - Amid the mysteries which become the more mysterious, the more they are thought about, there will remain the one absolute certainty, that he is ever in the presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy, from which all things proceed.
Página xii - It is not wisdom to be only wise, And on the inward vision close the eyes, But it is wisdom to believe the heart.