The Sciences of Nature Versus the Science of Man: A Plea for the Science of ManDodd & Mead, 1871 - 98 sidor |
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The Sciences of Nature Versus the Science of Man: A Plea for the Science of Man Noah Porter Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1871 |
The Sciences of Nature Versus the Science of Man: A Plea for the Science of Man Noah Porter Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1871 |
The Sciences of Nature Versus the Science of Man: A Plea for the Science of Man Noah Porter Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1871 |
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Sida 47 - If, therefore, we speak of the mind as a series of feelings, we are obliged to complete the statement by calling it a series of feelings which is aware of itself as past and future ; and we are reduced to the alternative of believing that the mind, or ego, is something different from any series of feelings or possibilities of them, or of accepting the paradox that something, which ex hypothesi is but a series of feelings, can be aware of itself as a series.
Sida 57 - In distant parts of the stellar regions, where the phenomena may be entirely unlike those with which we are acquainted, it would be folly to affirm confidently that this general law prevails, any more than those special ones which we have found to hold universally on our own planet.
Sida 57 - The uniformity in the succession of events, otherwise called the law of causation, must be received not as a law of the universe, but of that portion of it only which is within the range of our means of sure observation, with a reasonable degree of extension to adjacent cases.
Sida 23 - Society, that when he saw the minute globules of potassium burst through the crust of potash, and take fire as they entered the atmosphere, he could not contain his joy — he actually bounded about the room in extatic delight ; and that some little time was required for him to compose himself sufficiently to continue the experiment.
Sida 35 - Philosophy, is the following-: —We have no knowledge of anything but Phenomena ; and our knowledge of phenomena is relative, not absolute. We know not the essence, nor the real mode of production, of any fact, but only its relations to other facts in the way of succession or of similitude. These relations are constant; that is, always the same in the same circumstances. The constant resemblances which link phenomena together, and the constant sequences which unite them as antecedent and consequent,...
Sida 10 - As he sat alone in a garden, he fell into a speculation on the power of gravity ; that as this power is not found sensibly diminished at the remotest distance from the centre of the earth, to which we can rise, neither at the tops of the loftiest buildings, nor even on the summits of the highest mountains ; it appeared to him reasonable to conclude, that this power must extend much...
Sida 92 - But, upon questions of consistency or taste, we have no room to enlarge. We contend, at present, only for the position that we cannot have a science of nature which does not regard the spirit of man as a part of nature. But is this all? Do man and nature exhaust the possibilities of being? We cannot answer this question here. But we find suggestions from the spectrum and the spectroscope which may be worth our heeding. The materials with which we have to do in these most brilliant scientific theories...
Sida 50 - ... the possibilities are conceived as standing to the actual sensations in the relation of a cause to its effects, or of canvas to the figures painted on it, or of a root to the trunk, leaves, and flowers, or of a substratum to that which is spread over it, or, in transcendental language, of Matter to Form.
Sida 30 - We urge, still further, that the history of the sciences of nature illustrates their near relation to the science of man. Before Socrates, the physics were as crude as the metaphysics. Both alike were raw guess-work, founded on hasty resemblances more rudely interpreted and generalized. From such speculations about matter and spirit Socrates wisely withdrew his thoughts, that he might first understand himself as nearer and more intelligible to himself than nature. But, in learning how to study himself,...
Sida 63 - ... is called self-consciousness is one set of brain fibres dancing a mazy antistrophe to similar fibres in a corresponding brain lobe. Granting that all of man which we call thought, emotion, and aspiration, is reducible to the workings of mechanical statics and dynamics, we fail altogether to explain how man so constituted and so acting can form a science of nature; how Newton came to connect the falling stone with the moon steadily detained and impetuously struggling in its path, and ventured...
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