AIDS to Reflection and Confessions of an Inquiring SpiritCosimo, Inc., 13 sep. 2005 - 460 sidor READER!-You have been bred in a land abounding with men, able in arts, learning, and knowledges manifold... But there is one art, of which every man should be master, the art of REFLECTION. If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?-from "The Author's Preface"Here in one compact volume are two important works on religion and spirituality from one the finest poets in the English language. In Aids to Reflection, first published in 1825, and Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit, which appeared in 1840, Coleridge ponders: pain and pleasure, aka "sensibility" prudential aphorisms elements of religious philosophy original sin redemption the divine origin of the Bible and much more.With the included essay on faith and Coleridge's notes on The Book of Common Prayer, this is a concise guide to the philosophical thinking of one of the great names in English literature.English poet and philosopher SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (1772-1834) is considered one of the great writers of Romanticism, the late 18th century artistic and intellectual movement. His best known works are The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan. |
Från bokens innehåll
Resultat 1-5 av 61
Sida xxxii
... believe what passeth all understanding , we cannot believe what is absurd , or contradictory to reason . Whether the Work be well executed , according to the idea of it , as now given , or whether the Author have ac- complished his ...
... believe what passeth all understanding , we cannot believe what is absurd , or contradictory to reason . Whether the Work be well executed , according to the idea of it , as now given , or whether the Author have ac- complished his ...
Sida xxxiv
... believe the same proposition to be false , which our reason sees to be true , but we cannot believe another proposition , which by the exercise of the same rational faculty we see to be incom- patible with the former , or to contradict ...
... believe the same proposition to be false , which our reason sees to be true , but we cannot believe another proposition , which by the exercise of the same rational faculty we see to be incom- patible with the former , or to contradict ...
Sida xxxv
... believe that to be right in the view of the Supreme Reason , which is clearly and decidedly wrong in the view of our own . It would be contradictory to reason , it would be irrational , to believe it , and therefore we cannot do so ...
... believe that to be right in the view of the Supreme Reason , which is clearly and decidedly wrong in the view of our own . It would be contradictory to reason , it would be irrational , to believe it , and therefore we cannot do so ...
Sida xxxvii
... believe and maintain ? For , I beg it may be observed , as a point of great moment , that it is not the method of the genuine . philosopher to separate his philosophy and religion , and adopting his principles independently in each , to ...
... believe and maintain ? For , I beg it may be observed , as a point of great moment , that it is not the method of the genuine . philosopher to separate his philosophy and religion , and adopting his principles independently in each , to ...
Sida xxxviii
... believe , distinctly enough stated , that reason and philosophy ought to prevent our reception of doctrines claiming the authority of revelation only so far as the very necessities of our rational being require . However mysterious the ...
... believe , distinctly enough stated , that reason and philosophy ought to prevent our reception of doctrines claiming the authority of revelation only so far as the very necessities of our rational being require . However mysterious the ...
Innehåll
ix | |
xxiii | |
Understanding | 277 |
Letters on the Inspira | 285 |
ESSAY ON FAITH | 341 |
NOTES ON THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER | 350 |
A NIGHTLY PRAYER | 360 |
Andra upplagor - Visa alla
Aids to Reflection and The Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit Samuel Taylor Coleridge Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1904 |
Aids to Reflection: And, The Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit Samuel Taylor Coleridge Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1913 |
Aids to Reflection, and The Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit Samuel Taylor Coleridge Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1901 |
Vanliga ord och fraser
according answer APHORISM Apostacy Apostle Arminian asserted attri authority Baptism believe Bible called Calvinistic cause character Christ Christian Church Coleridge's common conscience consequence contradiction conviction Deist distinction divine doctrine effect essential evil existence express fact faculty faith feelings former Gospel grace ground hath heart Holy Holy Spirit human idea Infant Baptism instance Instinct interpretation Irenæus Jeremy Taylor knowledge language latter least LEIGHTON AND COLERIDGE less light likewise mankind means metaphorical metaphysics mind moral mystery nature necessity notion objects opinions origin Original Sin outward peculiar perfect law philosophy present principle proof Prothesis prudence purpose question rational reader reason received Redemption reference reflection religious rence SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE scheme Scriptures seek sense soul speak Spirit Spiritual Religion supposed term thee theological things thou thought tion true truth understanding views whole words writer
Populära avsnitt
Sida xviii - Whithersoever the Spirit was to go, the wheels went, and thither was their spirit to go: — for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels also...
Hänvisningar till den här boken
Dialogue and Literature: Apostrophe, Auditors, and the Collapse of Romantic ... Michael Macovski Begränsad förhandsgranskning - 1994 |