Mind, Volume 5Oxford University Press, 1880 - Electronic journals A journal of philosophy covering epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophy of logic, and philosophy of mind. |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
absolute action activity admit æsthetic animal argument attributes Balfour beauty belief called causation cause Charterhouse chemical colour complete conception connexion consciousness constitution Creskas criticism definite Descartes Dicotyledons distinct doctrine ectoderm effect elements Ethics evolution existence experience expression fact feeling functional G. H. Lewes Gersonides Gymnosperms Herbert Spencer human impulse individual inference infinite infinitely divisible infusoria instinct intelligence intuition J. S. Mill Joël judgment Julius Cæsar Kabbala Kant Kant's kind knowledge logical Maimonides matter means ment mental metaphysical mind mode molecules moral morphological motion motive movement nature objects organic organisation pain Paramaecium perception phenomena philosophy pleasure position possible present principle Prof proposition protoplasm psychology question reason recognised regard relation result scientific seems sensation sense sensory Spencer Spinoza statement substance suppose syllogism theory things thought tion truth universal utilitarianism vital volition whole words
Popular passages
Page 386 - Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches: but let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the Lord which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the Lord.
Page 589 - Professor of Moral Philosophy at King's College, London, together with a new collation of several of the English MSS. by JH SWAINSON, MA, formerly Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
Page 223 - We need not, however, rest satisfied with an induction from these instances yielded by the essential vital functions ; for it is an inevitable deduction from the hypothesis of Evolution, that races of sentient creatures could have come into existence under no other conditions.
Page 48 - Fate involves the melioration. No statement of the Universe can have any soundness, which does not admit its ascending effort. The direction of the whole, and of the parts, is toward benefit, and in proportion to the health. Behind every individual closes organization : before him, opens liberty, — the Better, the Best.
Page 95 - From this verdict of the only competent judges, I apprehend there can be no appeal. On a question which is the best worth having of two pleasures, or which of two modes of existence is the most grateful to the feelings...
Page 226 - ... the absolutely good, the absolutely right, in conduct, can be that only which produces pure pleasure — pleasure unalloyed with pain anywhere. By implication, conduct which has any concomitant of pain, or any painful consequence, is partially wrong...
Page 137 - It would be incompatible with everything we know of the cerebral action, to suppose that the physical chain ends abruptly in a physical void, occupied by an immaterial substance ; which immaterial substance, after working alone, imparts its results to the other edge of the physical break, and determines the active response — two shores of the material with an intervening ocean of the immaterial.
Page 587 - Circle Edition. By JOSEPH PAYNE, the first Professor of the Science and Art of Education in the College of Preceptors, London, England. With portrait. 16mo, 350pp., English cloth, with gold back stamp.
Page 95 - On a question which is the best worth having of two pleasures, or which of two modes of existence is the most grateful to the feelings, apart from its moral attributes and consequences, the judgment of those who are qualified by knowledge of both, must be admitted to be final.
Page 303 - ... and its organic development ; as well as to illustrate the questions that engrossed them in the light of contemporary discussion. The Series will thus unfold the History of Modern Philosophy under the light cast upon it by the labours of the chief systembuilders. In each work it will be the aim of the writers to translate the discussion out of the dialect of the Schools, which is often too technical, and which presupposes the knowledge of a special vocabulary, into the language of ordinary life....