An Introduction to the Philosophy of Herbert SpencerWatts, 1904 - 128 หน้า |
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absolute action activities advance anthropomorphic argument Autobiography become belief cause changes character civilisation complete conception course creed Darwin Deity doctrine of evolution EDWARD CLODD emotions essay Ethics evolutionary existence experiences fact factors feelings FLEET STREET force generalisations gradually Herbert Spencer heterogeneity human hypothesis important individual induction inevitably infinite intellectual interpretation intuitional knowledge less limited matter ment mental mind modern moral motion natural natural selection Nebular Hypothesis ness never organisation organism Origin of Species original ourselves pheno phenomena political present Principles of Psychology Principles of Sociology problem progress question RATIONALIST PRESS ASSOCIATION realise recognised regarded relations religion religious ideas result SAMUEL LAING savage scientific sense Social Statics society speculations Spencerian Synthetic Philosophy tendency theism theology theory things thought tion truth ultimate universe utilitarian various W. H. HUDSON whole words
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หน้า 71 - has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other...
หน้า 90 - I believe that the experiences of utility organized and consolidated through all past generations of the human race, have been producing corresponding nervous modifications, which, by continued transmission and accumulation, have become in us certain faculties of moral intuition — certain emotions responding to right and wrong conduct, which have no apparent basis in the individual experiences of utility.
หน้า 114 - The last stage reached is recognition of the truth that force as it exists beyond consciousness, cannot be like what we know as force within consciousness; and that yet, as either is capable of generating the other, they must be different modes of the same. Consequently, the final outcome of that speculation commenced by the primitive man, is that the Power manifested throughout the Universe distinguished as material, is the same Power which in ourselves wells up under the form of consciousness.
หน้า 50 - Wolff, Goethe, and von Baer, have established the truth that the series of changes gone through during the development of a seed into a tree, or an ovum into an animal, constitute an advance from homogeneity of structure to heterogeneity of structure.
หน้า 55 - Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.
หน้า 64 - Here, indeed, we arrive at the barrier which needs to be perpetually pointed out; alike to those who seek materialistic explanations of mental phenomena, and to those who are alarmed lest such explanations may be found. The last class prove by their fear, almost as much as the first prove by their hope, that they believe Mind may possibly be interpreted in terms of Matter; whereas many whom they vituperate as materialists, are profoundly convinced that there is not the remotest possibility of so...
หน้า 87 - Conscience : though in that complex phenomenon, as it actually exists, the simple fact is, in general, all incrusted over with collateral associations, derived from sympathy, from love, and still more from fear ; from all the forms of religious feeling ; from the recollections of childhood, and of all our past life ; from self-esteem, desire of the esteem of others, and occasionally even self-abasement.
หน้า 61 - From the beginning, pressure of population has been the proximate cause of progress. It produced the original diffusion of the race. It compelled men to abandon predatory habits and take to agriculture. It led to the clearing of the Earth's surface. It forced men into the social state; made social organization inevitable; and has developed the social sentiments. It has stimulated to progressive improvements in production, and to increased skill and intelligence. It is daily thrusting us into closer...
หน้า 94 - I conceive it to be the business of Moral Science to deduce from the laws of life and the conditions of existence what kinds of action necessarily tend to produce happiness and what kinds to produce unhappiness. Having done this, its deductions are to be recognized as laws of conduct; and are to be conformed to irrespective of a direct estimation of happiness or misery.
หน้า 64 - Motion as we think them are but symbolic of unknowable forms of existence, we join the conclusion lately reached that Mind also is unknowable, and that the simplest form under which we can think of its substance is but a symbol of something that can never be rendered into thought; we see that the whole question is at last nothing more than the question whether these symbols should be expressed in terms of those or those in terms of these—a question scarcely worth deciding ; since either answer...