An Examination of the Philosophy of the Unknowable as Expounded by Herbert SpencerB.F. Lacy, 1883 - 235 strán (strany) |
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Absolute abstract absurd activity admit affirm agency Agnosticism answer antecedent appearances argument ascer assertion assimilation Atheism attri attributes belief called causation cause cognition comprehension conceive conception conclusion congruity consciousness contemplation correlative correspondence DEDUCTIVE ARGUMENTS definite difference distinction distinguished doctrine effects element existence experience explanation extent external fact finite force hypothesis idea imagine implies impossible inconceivable infinite divisibility infinite series infinity internal Irrelative knowable knowledge known less limits manifestations matter Mental Substance minor premise modes motion mystery nature nescience noumena noumenon object of thought Objective Science Pantheism perception persistence phenomena phenomenon Philosophy present Prin produced proposition prove question Realism reality realize reason relation relative relativity of knowledge Religion represent representation Science sciousness self-existent sensation Sir William Hamilton solution Space spacial Spencer Substance of Mind supposed supposition symbol things tion transcends truth ultimate uncon Unconditioned universe Unknowable unlike unthinkable velocity
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Strana 16 - We are obliged to regard every phenomenon as a manifestation of some Power by which we are acted upon; though Omnipresence is unthinkable, yet, as experience discloses no bounds to the diffusion of phenomena, we are unable to think of limits to the presence of this Power; while the criticisms of Science teach From Herbert Spencer, First Principles (New York: HM Caldwell Co., nd).
Strana 138 - Our consciousness of the unconditioned being literally the unconditioned consciousness, or raw material of thought to which in thinking we give definite forms, it follows that an ever-present sense of real existence is the very basis of our intelligence.
Strana 114 - The very conception of consciousness, in whatever mode it may be manifested, necessarily implies distinction between one object and another. To be conscious, we must be conscious of something; and that something can only be known, as that which it is, by being distinguished from that which it is not.
Strana 12 - The knowledge within our reach, is the only knowledge that can be of service to us. This maintenance of a correspondence between internal actions and external actions, which both constitutes our life at each moment and is the means whereby life is continued through subsequent moments, merely requires that the agencies acting upon us shall be known in their co-existences and sequences, and not that they shall be known in themselves. If x and y are two uniformly connected properties in some outer object,...
Strana 83 - Various classes of facts thus unite to prove that the law of metamorphosis, which holds among the physical forces, holds equally between them and the mental forces. Those modes of the Unknowable which we call motion, heat, light, chemical .affinity, etc., are alike transformable into each other, and into those modes of the Unknowable which we distinguish as sensation, emotion, thought: these, ,in their turns, being directly or indirectly retransfonnable into the original shapes.
Strana 113 - Thought cannot transcend consciousness; consciousness is only possible under the antithesis of a subject and object of thought known only in correlation, and mutually limiting each other; while, independently of this, all that we know either of subject or object, either of mind or matter, is only a knowledge in each of the particular, of the plural, of the different, of the modified, of the phenomenal.
Strana 165 - By continually seeking to know and being continually thrown back with a deepened conviction of the impossibility of knowing, we may keep alive the consciousness that it is alike our highest wisdom and our highest duty to regard that through which all things exist as The Unknowable.
Strana 210 - If Religion and Science are to be reconciled, the basis of reconciliation must be this deepest, widest, and most certain of all facts — that the Power which the Universe manifests to us is utterly inscrutable.
Strana 117 - It is thus manifest that a consciousness of the Absolute is equally self-contradictory with that of the Infinite. To be conscious of the Absolute as such, we must know that an object, which is given in relation to our consciousness, is identical with one which exists in its own nature, out of all relation to consciousness. But to know this identity, we must be able to compare the two together; and such a comparison is itself a contradiction.
Strana 210 - Religions diametrically opposed in their .overt dogmas, are yet perfectly at one in the tacit conviction that the existence of the world with all it contains and all which surrounds it, is a mystery ever pressing for interpretation. On this point, if on no other, there is entire unanimity.