Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind Volume 2 (Paperback)


This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1822 edition. Excerpt: ...constitution of man. " We have all of us by nature ju.Ttft Ti (as botli Plato and Aristotle call it) a certain divination, presage, and parturient vaticination in our minds, of some higher good and perfection, than either power or knowledge. Knowledge is plainly to be preferred before power, as being that which guides and directs its blind force and impetus; but Aristotle himself declares, that there is Xoyov Ti xfitr Ttt, which is Xoyov j something better thim reason and knowledge; "which is the principle and original of it. For (saitli he) Xoyov f 1 v Aoy, AAc ti xf ffrra. The principle of reason is not reason, but something better.--Intellectual Susti-m p 203. Lord Shaftshury has expressed the same truth more simply and perspicuously in that beautiful sentence which occurs more than once in his writings: " True wisdom cimcs more from the heartthan from the head." Numberless illustrations of this profound maxim must immediately crowd on the memory of all who are conversant with the most enlightened works on the theory of legislation: more particularly, with those which appeared, during the eighteenth century, on the science of political economy. i of my own deviations from the track which has been commonly pursued; and, secondly, to facilitate the progress of such as may follow me in the same path, by directing their attention lo those points of divergency in the way, which may suggest matter of doubt or hesitation. I know at the same time, that in the opinion of many, the best mode of unfolding the principles of a science is to state them systematically and concisely, without any historical retrospects whatever; and I believe the opinion is well-founded, in those...

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1822 edition. Excerpt: ...constitution of man. " We have all of us by nature ju.Ttft Ti (as botli Plato and Aristotle call it) a certain divination, presage, and parturient vaticination in our minds, of some higher good and perfection, than either power or knowledge. Knowledge is plainly to be preferred before power, as being that which guides and directs its blind force and impetus; but Aristotle himself declares, that there is Xoyov Ti xfitr Ttt, which is Xoyov j something better thim reason and knowledge; "which is the principle and original of it. For (saitli he) Xoyov f 1 v Aoy, AAc ti xf ffrra. The principle of reason is not reason, but something better.--Intellectual Susti-m p 203. Lord Shaftshury has expressed the same truth more simply and perspicuously in that beautiful sentence which occurs more than once in his writings: " True wisdom cimcs more from the heartthan from the head." Numberless illustrations of this profound maxim must immediately crowd on the memory of all who are conversant with the most enlightened works on the theory of legislation: more particularly, with those which appeared, during the eighteenth century, on the science of political economy. i of my own deviations from the track which has been commonly pursued; and, secondly, to facilitate the progress of such as may follow me in the same path, by directing their attention lo those points of divergency in the way, which may suggest matter of doubt or hesitation. I know at the same time, that in the opinion of many, the best mode of unfolding the principles of a science is to state them systematically and concisely, without any historical retrospects whatever; and I believe the opinion is well-founded, in those...

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October 2012

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October 2012

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246 x 189 x 16mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

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304

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978-1-152-64778-7

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9781152647787

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1-152-64778-4



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