The Philosophy of Personalism: A Study in the Metaphysics of ReligionKraus Reprint Company, 1927 - 438 páginas |
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Página 297 - Your favorite doctrine, Socrates, that knowledge is simply recollection, if true, also necessarily implies a previous time in which we learned that which we now recollect. But this would be impossible unless our soul was in some place before existing in the human form ; here, then, is another argument of the soul's immortality.
Página 268 - Now if this were true, even now there would be nothing in existence, because that which does not exist begins to exist only through something already existing. Therefore, if at one time nothing» was in existence, it would have been impossible for anything to have begun to exist; and thus even now nothing would be in existence — which is absurd.
Página 32 - But also, God, whose pleasure brought Man into being, stands away As it were a handbreadth off, to give Room for the newly-made to live, And look at him from a place apart, And use his gifts of brain and heart, Given, indeed, but to keep for ever.
Página 173 - ... each Self is a unique existence, which is perfectly impervious, if I may so speak, to other selves — impervious in a fashion of which the impenetrability of matter is a faint analogue. The self, accordingly, resists invasion; in its character of self it refuses to admit another self within itself, and thus be made, as it were, a mere retainer of something else.
Página 242 - And assuredly that, than which nothing greater can be conceived, cannot exist in the understanding alone. For, suppose it exists in the understanding alone: then it can be conceived to exist in reality; which is greater. Therefore, if that, than which nothing greater can be conceived, exists in the understanding alone, the very being, than which nothing greater can be conceived, is one, than which a greater can be conceived.
Página 385 - Bowne used to say of an eminent- pragmatist that in his fundamental thinking he was "afflicted with the blind staggers." This is true of many pragmatists. So unclear, hesitant, inconsistent and often purely negative are they when it comes to the deeper problems of metaphysics that one is almost warranted in saying with Papini that "pragmatism is really less a philosophy than a method of doing without one.
Página 142 - In like manner the good may be said to be not only the author of knowledge to all things known, but of their being and essence, and yet the good is not essence, but far exceeds essence in dignity and power.
Página 142 - Now, that which imparts truth to the known and the power of knowing to the knower is what I would have you term the...
Página 300 - Gods, children of gods, who are my works and of whom I am the artificer and father, my creations are indissoluble, if so I will. All that is bound may be undone, but only an evil being would wish to undo that which is harmonious and happy.
Página 278 - I was quite delighted at the notion of this, which appeared admirable, and I said to myself: If mind is the disposer, mind will dispose all for the best, and put each particular in the best place...