Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society for the Systematic Study of Philosophy, Volumen22Williams and Norgate, 1922 Contains the papers read at the Society's fortnightly meetings in London throughout the academic year, and short discussion notes on these papers. Papers are drawn from an international base of contributors and discuss issues across a broad range of philosophical traditions, including those which are of greatest current interest. |
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A. N. WHITEHEAD abstraction acquaintance actual admit æsthetic appear argument Aristotelian Society artist assertion beauty C. E. M. JOAD called character cognition colour concept connexion consciousness criterion criticism Croce D.Sc Dawes Hicks definition determination discussion distinction doctrine DOROTHY WRINCH Einstein eixaoía element entities error Euclidian existence experience express F. C. S. Schiller fact false first-hand geometry ideal imagination individual judgment knowledge laws LL.D logical mathematical means mental mind Miss nature notion Novelty Nyaya objects observer Oxford particular perceived perception phenomena philosophy physical Plato position possible principle of relativity Prof Professor propositions question realist reality reason regard relation Road S. N. DASGUPTA scientific sense simply taste Theaetetus theory of relativity things thinking thought tion true truth ultimate unreal Upanisads Vedanta Whitehead Wildon Carr words δόξα εἰκασία ἐπιστήμη καὶ πίστις
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Página 37 - It is impossible to meditate on time and the mystery of the creative passage of nature without an overwhelming emotion at the limitations of human intelligence.
Página 35 - I don't know what I may seem to the world; but as to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of Truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Página 164 - ... to exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
Página 108 - One of the poems on which much praise has been bestowed, is Lycidas ; of which the diction is harsh, the rhymes uncertain, and the numbers unpleasing. What beauty there is, we must therefore seek in the sentiments and images. It is not to be considered as the effusion of real passion ; for passion runs not after remote allusions and obscure opinions. Passion plucks no berries from the myrtle and ivy, nor calls upon Arethuse and Mincius, nor tells of rough "satyrs and fauns with cloven heel.
Página 154 - In minds able to speak at all there is, it is true, some knowledge about everything. Things can at least be classed, and the times of their appearance told. But in general, the less we analyze a thing, and the fewer of its relations we perceive, the less we know about it and the more our familiarity with it is of the acquaintance-type.
Página 75 - And when she has arrived at a decision, either gradually or by a sudden impulse, and has at last agreed, and does not doubt, this is called her opinion. I say, then, that to form an opinion is to speak, and opinion is a word spoken, — I mean, to oneself and in silence, not aloud or to another...
Página 108 - It is not to be considered as the effusion of real passion, for passion runs not after remote allusions and obscure opinions. Passion plucks no beri ries from the myrtle and ivy, nor calls upon Arethuse and Mincius, nor tells of rough satyrs and "fauns with cloven heel." Where there is leisure for fiction, there is little grief.
Página 37 - The passage of nature which is only another name for the creative force of existence has no narrow ledge of definite instantaneous present within which to operate. Its operative presence which is now urging nature forward must be sought for throughout the whole, in the remotest past as well as in the narrowest breadth of any present duration.
Página 170 - are qualities which belong to objects independently of our opinions, just as much as round and square do; and when two people differ as to whether a thing is good, only one of them can be right, though it may be very hard to know which is right.
Página 170 - By saying that a thing is intrinsically good it means that it would be a good thing that the thing in question should exist, even if it existed quite alone, without any further accompaniments or effects whatever.