A History of Western Philosophy

he calls "fantastic," is perhaps no more so than orthodox metaphysics. He is not, however, wholly contemptuous of Swedenborg. Hi ...

tion, on the other hand, is one which, though it may be elicited by experience, is seen, when known, to have a basis other than ...

(this is not Kant's illustration). Similarly, since you always wear spatial spectacles in your mind, you are sure of always seei ...

of causality, one according to the laws of nature, the other that of freedom; the antithesis maintains that there is only causal ...

cannot itself prove their reality. The importance of these ideas is practical, i.e., connected with morals. The purely intellect ...

contains no condition by which it is limited, nothing remains over but the generality of a law in general, to which the maxim of ...

principle may be regarded as giving an ethical basis for democracy. In this interpretation, it is not open to the above objectio ...

Space is a necessary presentation a priori, which underlies all external perceptions; for we cannot imagine that there should b ...

wise? Why, for instance, do I always see people's eyes above their mouths and not below them? According to Kant, the eyes and th ...

[space] is essentially unique, the manifold in it rests solely on limitations." From this it is concluded that space is an a pri ...

are (in some sense) material, we are led to the conclusion that all the actual qualities in percepts are different from those in ...

of physics. This assumption, however, is by no means logically necessary. If it is abandoned, percepts cease to be in any import ...

lation reflects the state of mind of a vigorous nation deprived, by historical accidents, of its natural share of power. Germany ...

make Berlin a cultural centre; the Berlin Academy had as its perpetual President an eminent Frenchman, Maupertuis, who, however, ...

Most of the philosophers of the French Revolution combined science with beliefs associated with Rousseau. Helvétius and Condorc ...

afterwards developed more precisely by Rousseau." Locke, he says, first showed the limits of human knowledge. His "method soon b ...

The philosophical radicals differed from men like Helvétius and Condorcet in many ways. Temperamentally, they were patient and ...

chains of reasoning, and to glorify violence of certain kinds. In practical politics it is important as an ally of nationalism. ...

each generation. Thus from age to age deer run more swiftly, cats stalk their prey more silently, and giraffes' necks become lon ...

I do not see how he is to resist an argument in favour of Votes for Oysters. An adherent of evolution may maintain that not only ...