The Philosophical Basis of Theism: An Examination of the Personality of Man to Ascertain His Capacity to Know and Serve God, and the Validity of the Principles Underlying the Defence of Theism |
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... worth estimated by rational standard . - V . The empirical and rational elements . - VI . The greatest good and the true good . ness . 256-258 48. HEDONISM IS FALSE . - Various ethical theories more or less Hedonistic . I. Necessary ...
... worth estimated by rational standard . - V . The empirical and rational elements . - VI . The greatest good and the true good . ness . 256-258 48. HEDONISM IS FALSE . - Various ethical theories more or less Hedonistic . I. Necessary ...
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... worth to man in life rests on his experience of God's gracious presence and power in his own moral and spiritual development . In the strength of such knowledge many a Christian has lived a life of Christ - like love or gone to a ...
... worth to man in life rests on his experience of God's gracious presence and power in his own moral and spiritual development . In the strength of such knowledge many a Christian has lived a life of Christ - like love or gone to a ...
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... worth living ; it declares that the universe gives no scope for feeling , or action or achievement of any worth . The Reason , the Feelings , the Will revolt from it . The truth of opinions is tested by their bearing on action and ...
... worth living ; it declares that the universe gives no scope for feeling , or action or achievement of any worth . The Reason , the Feelings , the Will revolt from it . The truth of opinions is tested by their bearing on action and ...
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... of man pronounce right , and perfect and of true worth . The practical Reason is as real a factor in his knowledge as the Speculative . The recognition of final causes is in the essence of his 38 THE PHILOSOPHICAL BASIS OF THEISM .
... of man pronounce right , and perfect and of true worth . The practical Reason is as real a factor in his knowledge as the Speculative . The recognition of final causes is in the essence of his 38 THE PHILOSOPHICAL BASIS OF THEISM .
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... worth to himself or others . Plainly this can only lead to agnosticism and not to the know- ledge of the truth ; for it assumes that falsity is organized into the very constitution of man . The real condition of discovering the truth is ...
... worth to himself or others . Plainly this can only lead to agnosticism and not to the know- ledge of the truth ; for it assumes that falsity is organized into the very constitution of man . The real condition of discovering the truth is ...
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Page 95 - For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe anything but the perception.
Page 95 - I may venture to affirm of the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement.
Page 326 - ... if any man shall think by view and inquiry into these sensible and material things to attain that light, whereby he may reveal unto himself the nature or will of God, then, indeed, is he spoiled by vain philosophy; for the contemplation of God's creatures and works produceth (having regard to the works and creatures themselves) knowledge, but having regard to God no perfect knowledge, but wonder, which is broken knowledge.
Page 340 - Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born, With nowhere yet to rest my head, Like these, on earth I wait forlorn. Their faith, my tears, the world deride; I come to shed them at their side.
Page 407 - Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.
Page 190 - I am surprised to find, that instead of the usual copulations of propositions, is, and is not, I meet with no proposition that is not connected with an ought, or an ought not. This change is imperceptible; but is, however, of the last consequence. For as this ought, or ought not...
Page 380 - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt...
Page 388 - But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
Page 324 - That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom...
Page 314 - For the invisible things of God from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead...