Principles of Natural TheologyLongmans, Green & Company, 1923 - 612 páginas |
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absolutely action activity actually actus Actus Purus admit affirm agent agnosticism analogy animal argument Aristotle attri attributes beatitude belongs causality cerned conceived concept conclusion contend cosmological argument created creation creatures deism Descartes determined distinct Divine essence doctrine effect efficient cause ence essential eternity exercise experience explain fact fection final finite God's existence Hegel Hegelian human idea ideo impossible infinite intellect intelligence involves Kant knowledge limited manifest material matter ment merely metaphysical mind mode moral law motion Natural Theology necessary object ontological argument pantheism perfection philosophy physical possess possible potency potentiality predicated premotion principle proof question quod rational reality realized reason regard relation religion Scholastic Scholasticism scientia media secundum self-existent sense shew shewn signify spirit substance Summa Theol supreme teleological argument term theism theory things thought tion true truth unity universe urged virtue wholly
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Página 512 - ... the extension of the province of what we call matter and causation, and the concomitant gradual banishment from all regions of human thought of what we call spirit and spontaneity.
Página 241 - But these three conceptions, the Cause, the Absolute, the Infinite, all equally indispensable, do they not imply contradiction to each other, when viewed in conjunction, as attributes of one and the same Being ? A Cause cannot, as such, be absolute : the Absolute cannot, as such, be a cause. The cause, as such, exists only in relation to its effect : the cause is a cause of the effect ; the effect is an effect of the cause. On the other hand, the conception of the Absolute implies a possible existence...
Página 158 - But there is a superior principle of reflection or conscience in every man, which distinguishes between the internal principles of his heart as well as his external actions ; which passes judgment upon himself and them ; pronounces determinately some actions to be iu themselves just, right, good; others to be in themselves evil, wrong, unjust...
Página 21 - When any natural object or event is presented, it is impossible for us, by any sagacity or penetration, to discover, or even conjecture, without experience, what event will result from it or to carry our foresight beyond that object which is immediately present to the memory and senses. Even after one instance or experiment where we have observed a particular event to follow upon another, we are not entitled to form a general rule or foretell what will happen in like cases, it being justly esteemed...
Página 21 - The first time a man saw the communication of motion by impulse, as by the shock of two billiard balls, he could not pronounce that the one event was connected: but only that it was conjoined with the other. After he has observed several instances of this nature, he then pronounces them to be connected.
Página 21 - But there is nothing in a number of instances, different from every single instance, which is supposed to be exactly similar; except only, that after a repetition of similar instances, the mind is carried by habit, upon the appearance of one event, to expect its usual attendant, and to believe that it will exist.
Página 159 - No fear is felt by any one who recognizes that his conduct has not been beautiful, though he may be mortified at himself, if perhaps he has thereby forfeited some advantage ; but, if he has been betrayed into any kind of immorality, he has a lively sense of responsibility and guilt, though the act be no offence against society, — of distress and apprehension, even though it may be of present service to him, — of compunction and regret, though in itself it be most pleasurable, — of confusion...
Página 21 - ... is carried by habit, upon the appearance of one event, to expect its usual attendant, and to believe that it will exist. This connexion, therefore, which we feel in the mind, this customary transition of the imagination from one object to its usual attendant, is the sentiment or impression from which we form the idea of power or necessary connexion.
Página 142 - ... the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of the ecliptic, and more remotely upon the variations in that inclination known as precession and nutation.
Página 21 - But when one particular species of event has always, in all instances, been conjoined with another, we make no longer any scruple of foretelling one upon the appearance of the other, and of employing that reasoning, which can alone assure us of any mauer of fact or existence, We then call the one object, Cause; the other, Effect...