A History of Western Philosophy

Kant says that if you are kind to your brother because you are fond of him, you have no moral merit: an act only has moral merit ...

shy of large programmes all cut out of one block, and preferred to consider each question on its merits. In politics as in philo ...

situation is greatly changed. But even now, both in England and in America, big business on the whole dislikes war. Enlightened ...

There was a young man who said, "God Must think it exceedingly odd If he finds that this tree Continues to be When there's no on ...

arguments in favour of a certain important conclusion, though not quite in favour of the conclusion that he thinks he is proving ...

a pleasure and a bitter taste is a pain, and that pleasure and pain are mental. The same argument applies to odours, since they ...

dent contradiction." It will be observed that, at this point, the argument becomes logical and is no longer empirical. A few pag ...

discusses the view that we must distinguish the act of perceiving from the object perceived, and that the former is mental while ...

is logically unobjectionable, in spite of the fact that it is logically impossible to perceive an instance of it. Schematically, ...

It is also urged that a thing that tastes sweet when I am well may taste bitter when I am ill. Very similar arguments are used a ...

But we must now ask ourselves what we mean by "perceiving." Philonous maintains that, as regards sensible things, their reality ...

(2) The second position, which is solipsism as ordinarily understood, allows some inference from my percepts, but only to other ...

I do not propose, at present, to decide between these four points of view. The decision, if possible at all, can only be made by ...

complex; I will therefore, leave it on one side for the present. The fourth of the above theories, which admits events that no o ...

It will be seen that, according to the above definitions, a mind and a piece of matter are, each of them, a group of events. The ...

Fortified by these credentials, he ventured again into philosophy. He shortened the Treatise by leaving out the best parts and m ...

exactly represent." Complex ideas, on the other hand, need not resemble impressions. We can imagine a winged horse without havin ...

is different from generality, but has some of the same characteristics. By not noticing it, Hume runs into unnecessary difficult ...

out introducing the "Self." Further, the "Self," as defined, can be nothing but a bundle of perceptions, not a new simple "thing ...

Geometry is not so certain as algebra and arithmetic, because we cannot be sure of the truth of its axioms. It is a mistake to s ...