Desire and Reason: Being an Account of the Origin, and Development of Intellectual Principles (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

K. J. Spalding

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ISBN 10 : 1330153227 ISBN 13 : 9781330153222

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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It seems desirable for a philosopher to introduce his thoughts with some account of what he supposes philosophy to be. Philosophy having been studied for so long, it might be anticipated that there existed among philosophers a general agreement at least as to its purpose. But particularly in our own time the definition of philosophy appears doubtful; so much so that to be called a philosopher seems to imply nothing in particular. Philosophy seems to me to be the attempt to discover in things a necessary existence :and by this I mean one required by the mind. It is none of the minds original claims to require much, or perhaps anything. At first the mind recognises, without understanding, things ;it does not suppose itself to have any power over them ;little or nothing seems to it necessary, and only chance speaks to it of a world strange, and for all it can say, absurd and unintelligible. Philosophy is in these conditions evidently impossible. But such conditions are also what tend to awaken philosophy :they reveal the mind to itself ;oppose it to chance ;and make it sensible of a capacity to require the existence of some things, and to deny the possibiU ty of others. 2. It is, I think, convictions thus arising which, in theN form of intellectual principles, constitute those assumptions from which philosophy springs. Some assumption, it is certain, every philosopher must make. And the nature of that assumption is the first thing which he has to determine.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330153227
• ISBN 13: 9781330153222
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 228
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