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Sonnenschein & Company, Limited, 1901 - Electronic book - 339 pages 0 Reviews [ ] [Search inside] Preview this book >> What people are saying - Write a review We haven't found any reviews in the usual places. Selected pages Title Page Title Page Table of Contents Table of Contents Contents Chapter Page I THE DILEMMA OF SCEPTICISM I 11 THE SPECIOUS PRESENT 36 SELFTRANSCENDENCE 57 INSUFFICIENT REASON 100 THE UNITY OF CONSCIOUSNESS 146 THE TESTIMONY OF CONSCIOUSNESS 184 PART SECOND ETHICS OF THE SPECIOUS PRESENT 249 THE MORALITY THAT OUGHT TO BE 251 THE MORALITY THAT IS 280 THE PART AND THE WHOLE 296 THE UNIT OF ETHICS 322 Other editions - View all The Adversaries of the Sceptic: Or, The Specious Present, [content] a New Inquiry Into ... Alfred Hodder Full view - 1901 The Adversaries of the Sceptic: Or, The Specious Present, [content] a New Inquiry Into ... Alfred Hodder Full view - 1901 The Adversaries of the Sceptic: Or, The Specious Present, [content] a New Inquiry Into ... Alfred Hodder Full view - 1901 View all >> Common terms and phrases accept actual affirm agent answer appear argument attainment belief better Bradley called certain cognized conclusion conduct consciousness consists course desire detail difficulty distinction doubt equal error ethics exist experience fact false feel follow future given ground hand head hold ideal ideas immediate impossible individual inference instance intelligence interests intuition judge judgment kind knowledge known least less logic matter means memory mental metaphysics mind moment moments moral nature never object once one's pain particular past perceived perception person philosophy plain pleasure possess possible precisely principle psychological idealist question reason regard relation remembered represent satisfaction satisfy sceptic seems sensation sense separate shown similarity simply single Society Specious Present standard stuff succession supposed taken theory things thought tion true truth unit unity universal vision whole wrong Popular passages Page 154 - It seems evident that men are carried, by a natural instinct or prepossession, to repose faith in their senses ; and that, without any reasoning, or even almost before the use of reason, we always suppose an external universe which depends not on our perception, but would exist though we and every sensible creature were absent or annihilated. Appears in 156 books from 1804-2007 Page 101 - ... adaequatio intellectus et rei, secundum quod intellectus dicit esse quod est, vel non esse quod non est... Appears in 65 books from 1858-2007 More Page 21 - Hence to think is to judge, and to judge is to criticise, and to criticise is to use a criterion of reality. And surely to doubt this would be mere blindness or confused self-deception. But, if so, it is clear that, in rejecting the inconsistent as appearance, we are applying a positive knowledge of the ultimate nature of things. Ultimate reality is such that it does not contradict itself; here is an absolute criterion. Appears in 60 books from 1893-2006 Page 327 - The merits of that ship and her gallant captain," wrote Nelson to the Admiralty, "are too well known to benefit by anything I could say. Her misfortune was great in getting aground, while her more fortunate companions were in the full tide of happiness. Appears in 74 books from 1806-2007 Page 155 - ... the whimsical condition of mankind, who must act and reason and believe ; though they are not able, by their most diligent enquiry, to satisfy themselves concerning the foundation of these operations, or to remove the objections which may be raised against them. Appears in 83 books from 1825-2007 Page 254 - All philosophy has to do is to ' understand what is ', and moral philosophy has to understand morals which exist, not to make them or give directions for making them. Appears in 21 books from 1876-2006 Page 328 - Hear him again at Copenhagen : " A shot through the mainmast knocked the splinters about; and he observed to one of his officers with a smile, ' It is warm work, and this may be the last to any of us at any moment ' ; and then, stopping short at the gangway, added, with emotion, 'But, mark you -- I would not be elsewhere for thousands. Appears in 67 books from 1813-2007 Page 253 - my station and its duties ' teaches us to identify others and ourselves with the station we fill ; to consider that as good, and by virtue of that to consider others and ourselves good too. It teaches us that a man who does his work in the world is good, notwithstanding his faults, if his faults do not prevent him from fulfilling his station, it... Appears in 11 books from 1876-1993 Page 213 - A fixed law of connexion, making the sensations occur together, does not, say these philosophers, necessarily require what is called a substratum to support them. The conception of a substratum is but one of many possible forms in which that connexion presents itself to our imagination -- a mode of, as it were, realizing the idea. If there be such a substratum, suppose it... Appears in 17 books from 1846-2006 Page 326 - It is a calumny on men to say that they are roused to heroic action by ease, hope of pleasure, recompense, -- sugar-plums of any kind, in this world or the next ! In the meanest mortal there lies something nobler. The poor swearing soldier, hired to be shot, has his ' honour of a soldier,' different from drillregulations and the shilling a day. Appears in 103 books from 1809-2006 Less Bibliographic information QR code for The Adversaries of the Sceptic The Adversaries of the Sceptic: Or, The Specious Present, a Title New Inquiry Into Human Knowledge The Adversaries of the Sceptic: Or, The Specious Present, a New Inquiry Into Human Knowledge, Alfred Hodder Author Alfred Hodder Publisher S. Sonnenschein & Company, Limited, 1901 Original the University of Wisconsin - Madison from Digitized Nov 29, 2007 Length 339 pages Export BiBTeX EndNote RefMan Citation About Google Books - Privacy Policy - Terms of Service - Information for Publishers - Report an issue - Help - Google Home