A History of Western Philosophy

the statements of logic. As he puts it: "There is no object, which implies the existence of any other if we consider these objec ...

times the contention that what appears to us as necessary connection among objects is really only connection among the ideas of ...

believe in causation in a sense which, in general, he condemns. Let us take an illustration. I see an apple, and expect that, if ...

tion makes all expectation as to the future irrational, even the expectation that we shall continue to feel expectations. I do n ...

As an argument, this seems invalid. We believe in many relations of time and place which we cannot perceive: we think that time ...

connection between these we are mistaken. This argument is not conclusive on the general question, but it shows that it is rash ...

method of reasoning into moral subjects." It is evident that he started out with a belief that scientific method yields the trut ...

upon them; and take it for granted, whatever may be the reader's opinion at this present moment, that an hour hence he will be p ...

that it paralyses every effort to prove one line of action better than another. It was inevitable that such a self-refutation of ...

Part II. From Rousseau to the Present Day CHAPTER XVIII The Romantic Movement FROM the latter part of the eighteenth century to ...

The man of sensibility would be moved to tears by the sight of a single destitute peasant family, but would be cold to well-thou ...

The romantics were not without morals; on the contrary, their moral judgements were sharp and vehement. But they were based on q ...

through nationalism: each nation was felt to have a corporate soul, which could not be free so long as the boundaries of States ...

is typical in this respect, and Coleridge Kubla Khan is hardly the historical monarch of Marco Polo. The geography of the romant ...

After Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Southey had become reactionaries, hatred of the Revolution and Napoleon put a temporary brake o ...

in order to find parallels. To an English visitor, the ex- Kaiser, at Doorn, lamented that the English no longer loved him. Dr. ...

we could all enjoy this ecstasy of independence; since we cannot, its delights are only available to madmen and dictators. Revol ...

that you say and do, that we belong to the same stock. You understand more of me than others do, because we come of the same par ...

of activity, for every ancient community has developed rules of behaviour for which there is nothing to be said except that they ...

those who followed him and those who followed Locke. Sometimes they cooperated, and many individuals saw no incompatibility. But ...