Humanism: Philosophical EssaysMacMillan, 1903 - 297 Seiten |
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Seite 8 - ... adaptation. It must follow that the practical use, which has developed it, must have stamped itself upon its inmost structure, even if it has not moulded it out of pre-rational instincts. In short, a reason which has not practical value for the purposes of life is a monstrosity, a morbid aberration or failure of adaptation, which natural selection must sooner or later wipe away.
Seite xx - There is no possible point of view from which the world can appear an absolutely single fact. Real possibilities, real indeterminations, real beginnings, real ends, real evil, real crises, catastrophes, and escapes, a real God, and a real moral life, just as commonsense conceives these things, may remain in empiricism as conceptions which that philosophy gives up the attempt either to ' overcome ' or to reinterpret in monistic form.
Seite xxi - is in reality only the application of Humanism to the theory of knowledge'.8 The general need is to re-humanize the universe. Re-humanization of the universe, humanism in other words, demands in the first place a humanization of logic. This demand is in part a protest against the arid subtleties and mental gymnastics 1 A second edition, with the author's name...
Seite 162 - So setzest du der ewig regen, Der heilsam schaffenden Gewalt Die kalte Teufelsfaust entgegen, Die sich vergebens tückisch ballt! Was anders suche zu beginnen, Des Chaos wunderlicher Sohn! MEPHISTOPHELES Wir wollen wirklich uns besinnen, Die nächsten Male mehr davon! Dürft ich wohl diesmal mich entfernen?
Seite 10 - For our interests impose the conditions under which alone Reality can be revealed. Only such aspects of Reality can be revealed as are not merely knowable but as are objects of an actual desire, and consequent attempt, to know. All other realities or aspects of Reality, which there is no attempt to know, necessarily remain unknown, and for us unreal, because there is no one to look for them.
Seite 233 - Can you say what elements in life (if any) are felt by you to call for its perpetuity? III. Can you state why you feel in this way, as regards questions I. and II.? IV. Do you NOW feel the question of a future life to be of urgent importance to your mental comfort?
Seite 11 - That the Real has a determinate nature which the knowing reveals but does) not affect, so that our knowing makes no difference to it, is one of those sheer assumptions which are incapable, not only of proof, but even of rational defence. ' It is a survival of a crude realism which can be defended only, in a pragmatist manner, on the score of its practical convenience, as an avowed fiction.
Seite 9 - At a blow it awards to the ethical conception of Good supreme authority over the logical conception of True and the metaphysical conception of Real.
Seite 8 - In other words, it is a conscious application to the theory of life of the psychological facts of cognition as they appear to a teleological Voluntarism. In the light of such a teleological psychology the problems of logic and metaphysics must appear in a new light, and decisive weight must be given to the conceptions of Purpose and End. Or again, it is a systematic protest against the practice of ignoring in our theories of Thought and /Reality the...
Seite 162 - Des Menschen Tätigkeit kann allzu leicht erschlaffen, Er liebt sich bald die unbedingte Ruh'; Drum geb' ich gern ihm den Gesellen zu, Der reizt und wirkt und muß als Teufel schaffen.