Human Nature and Morals According to Auguste Comte: With Notes Illustrative of the Principles of PositivismA. & C. Black, 1901 - 115 من الصفحات |
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... regarded as a renovated form of the system of Gall . Those who can recall the forties and fifties of the nineteenth century will remember how much progressive intellects in these islands had been impressed by the Phrenological doctrine ...
... regarded as a renovated form of the system of Gall . Those who can recall the forties and fifties of the nineteenth century will remember how much progressive intellects in these islands had been impressed by the Phrenological doctrine ...
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... regarded either as emanations from the divine agents , enabling the objects in which they per- manently reside to undergo the operations of those agents , which would be in accordance with the Theological view , or may be gradually ...
... regarded either as emanations from the divine agents , enabling the objects in which they per- manently reside to undergo the operations of those agents , which would be in accordance with the Theological view , or may be gradually ...
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... regarded as a complex result of artificial culture or of the social relations . * It is to be remembered that the cerebral functions , from the biological point of view , with which we are here concerned , are regarded only with ...
... regarded as a complex result of artificial culture or of the social relations . * It is to be remembered that the cerebral functions , from the biological point of view , with which we are here concerned , are regarded only with ...
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... regarded as foreign to the other animal species ; it exists in the higher forms , though with less intensity , and especially with less continuity , than in the human type . The personal motors naturally tend to pre- dominate , being ...
... regarded as foreign to the other animal species ; it exists in the higher forms , though with less intensity , and especially with less continuity , than in the human type . The personal motors naturally tend to pre- dominate , being ...
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... regarded as blind , being restricted to feeling and desiring , though they influence the mental faculties , determining their destination and stimulating their exercise . Emotion and impulse are theirs , but these exhaust their domain ...
... regarded as blind , being restricted to feeling and desiring , though they influence the mental faculties , determining their destination and stimulating their exercise . Emotion and impulse are theirs , but these exhaust their domain ...
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الصفحة 73 - Let it be allowed, though virtue or moral rectitude does indeed consist in affection to and pursuit of what is right and good, as such ; yet, that when we sit down in a cool hour, we can neither justify to ourselves this or any other pursuit, till we are convinced that it will be for our happiness, or at least not contrary to it.
الصفحة 113 - We must therefore glean up our experiments in this science from a cautious observation of human life, and take them as they appear in the common course of the world, by men's behaviour in company, in affairs, and in their pleasures. Where experiments of this kind are judiciously collected and compared, we may hope to establish on them a science, which will not be inferior in certainty, and will be much superior in utility to any other of human comprehension.
الصفحة 87 - The cause, then, philosophically speaking, is the sum total of the conditions, positive and negative, taken together; the whole of the contingencies of every description, which being realized, the consequent invariably follows.
الصفحة 65 - That mankind is a community, that we all stand in a relation to each other, that there is a public end and interest of society which each particular is obliged to promote, is the sum of morals.
الصفحة 50 - No man can serve two masters, ye cannot serve God and mammon
الصفحة 112 - Moral philosophy has, indeed, this peculiar disadvantage, which is not found in natural, that in collecting its experiments, it cannot make them purposely, with premeditation, and after such a manner as to satisfy itself concerning every particular difficulty which may be.
الصفحة 66 - Reason alone, whatever any one may wish, is not, in reality, a sufficient motive of virtue in such a creature as man ; but this reason, joined with those affections which God has impressed upon his heart : And when these are allowed scope to exercise themselves, but under strict government and direction of reason ; then it is we act suitably to our nature, and to the circumstances God has placed us in.
الصفحة 64 - I answer: it has been proved that man by his nature is a law to himself, without the particular distinct consideration of the positive sanctions of that law ; the rewards and punishments which we feel, and those which from the light of reason we have ground to believe, are annexed to it. The question then carries its own answer along with it. Your obligation to obey this law, is its being the law of your nature. That your conscience approves of and attests to such a course of action, is itself alone...
الصفحة 31 - THE parts of human learning have reference to the three parts of man's Understanding, which is the seat of learning : History to his Memory, Poesy to his Imagination, and Philosophy to his Reason.
الصفحة 112 - When I am at a loss to know the effects of one body upon another in any situation, I need only put them in that situation, and observe what results from it. But should I endeavour to clear up after the same manner any...