The Philosophy of Emile Boutroux: As Representative of French Idealism in the Nineteenth Century, المجلد 194Surber-Arundale Company, 1924 - 153 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 52 - Few human creatures would consent to be changed into any of the lower animals for a promise of the fullest allowance of a beast's pleasures; no intelligent human being would consent to be a fool, no instructed person would be an ignoramus, no person of feeling and conscience would be selfish and base, even though they should be persuaded that the fool, the dunce, or the rascal is better satisfied with his lot than they are with theirs.
الصفحة 75 - Believing, as I do, in the continuity of Nature, I cannot stop abruptly where our microscopes cease to be of use. Here the vision of the mind authoritatively supplements the vision of the eye. By...
الصفحة 52 - It is better to be a human being dissatisfied, than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied, than a fool satisfied.
الصفحة 51 - Tous les événements, ceux mêmes qui par leur petitesse semblent ne pas tenir aux grandes lois de la nature, en sont une suite aussi nécessaire que les révolutions du soleil. Dans l'ignorance des liens qui les unissent au système entier de l'univers, on les a fait dépendre des causes finales, ou du hasard, suivant qu'ils arrivaient et se succédaient avec régularité, ou sans ordre apparent; mais ces causes imaginaires ont...
الصفحة 52 - We ought then to regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its anterior state and as the cause of the one which is to follow. Given for one instant an intelligence which could comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective situation of the beings who compose it — an intelligence sufficiently vast to submit these data to analysis...
الصفحة 75 - I cross the boundary of the experimental evidence,* and discern in that Matter which we, in our ignorance of its latent powers, and notwithstanding our professed reverence for its Creator, have hitherto covered with opprobrium, the promise and potency of all terrestrial Life.
الصفحة 68 - That people was the Greek. Except the blind forces of Nature, nothing moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin.
الصفحة 107 - Of all reasoning : for all our reasoncomprehension over- ° looked by logicians. ing is either from the whole to the parts and from the parts to the whole...
الصفحة 52 - On peut même dire , à parler en rigueur, que presque toutes nos connaissances ne sont que probables; et dans le petit nombre des choses que nous pouvons savoir avec certitude, dans les sciences mathématiques elles-mêmes, les principaux moyens de parvenir à la vérité, l'induction et l'analogie, se fondent sur les probabilités ; en sorte que le système entier des connaissances humaines se rattache à la théorie exposée dans cet essai.
الصفحة 75 - ... is but one of them. Another, of still wider grasp and more radical significance, is the doctrine of the Conservation of Energy, the ultimate philosophical issues of which are as yet but dimly seen — that doctrine which "binds nature fast in fate...