A Study of Religion, Its Sources and Contents, כרך 2Clarendon Press, 1888 |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
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admit agent animal antecedent appear Axioms of Causality Bain brutes causality cause character conception conscience consciousness constitution creatures death Deism Descartes determining Ding-an-sich Divine doctrine effect elements empirical energy essence eternal ethical evidence evil existence experience faith feeling finite force freedom give human human menagerie idea ideal immanent impulses individual infinite infinitude instinctive intellectual J. S. Mill James Mill Kant less limits living look Malebranche means mind moral motives movements nature necessarian necessity noumenal objective organism ourselves pain Pantheism passions perfection phenomena philosophical Theism physical pleasure possible prescience present question rational reason reflex action relation religion rule Schopenhauer self-conscious self-determination sensation sense sentiment simply soul Spinoza spirit springs of action suppose Theism theory things thought tion transcendent true uncon universe volition voluntary whole word
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עמוד 311 - But the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. G ranted that a definite thought and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously ; we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently any rudiment of the organ, which would enable us to pass, by a process of reasoning, from the one to the other.
עמוד 328 - ... unde anima atque animi constet natura videndum et quae res nobis vigilantibus obvia mentes terrificet morbo adfectis somnoque sepultis, cernere uti videamur eos audireque coram, morte obita quorum tellus amplectitur ossa.
עמוד 242 - In a given state of society, a certain number of persons must put an end to their own life. This is the general law; and the special question as to who shall commit the crime depends, of course, upon special laws; which, however, in their total action, must obey the large social law to which they are all subordinate. And the power of the larger law is so irresistible, that neither the love of life nor the fear of another world can avail anything towards even checking its operation.
עמוד 312 - Were our minds and senses so expanded, strengthened, and illuminated as to enable us to see and feel the very molecules of the brain; were we capable of following all their motions, all their groupings, all their electric discharges, if such there be ; and were we intimately acquainted with the corresponding states of thought and feeling, we should be as far as ever from the solution of the problem, " How are these physical processes connected with the facts of consciousness Í" The chasm between...
עמוד 301 - Examine it narrowly, and you will see that the word liberty is a word devoid of meaning ; that there are not, and that there cannot be, free beings ; that we are only what accords with the general order, with our organization, our education, and the chain of events. These dispose of us invincibly. We can no more conceive...
עמוד 312 - ... the passage from the current to the needle, if not demonstrable, is thinkable, and that we entertain no doubt as to the final mechanical solution of the problem ; but the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously, we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor, apparently, any rudiment of the organ, which would enable us to pass by a process...
עמוד 327 - For my own part, therefore, I believe in the immortality of the soul, not in the sense in which I accept• the demonstrable truths of science, but as a supreme act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work.
עמוד 327 - Man is to rob the whole process of its meaning. It goes far toward putting us to permanent intellectual confusion, and I do not see that any one has as yet alleged, or is ever likely to allege, a sufficient reason for our accepting so dire an alternative.
עמוד 315 - eludes all mental presentation ' ; and hence the logic seems of iron strength which claims for the brain an automatic action, uninfluenced by states of consciousness. But it is I believe, admitted by those who hold the automaton theory, that states of consciousness are produced by the marshalling of the molecules of the brain ; and this production of consciousness by molecular motion is to me quite as unthinkable as the production of molecular motion by consciousness.
עמוד 326 - Are Man's highest spiritual qualities, into the production of which all this creative energy has gone, to disappear with the rest? Has all this work been done for nothing? Is it all ephemeral, all a bubble that bursts, a vision that fades?