The Nature of Metaphysical ThinkingMacmillan & Company Limited, 1945 - 238 pages |
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... spirit which destroys their real character . This happened to the Stoics and later Platonists of the Roman Empire.5 They lost the spirit of free critical enquiry , and their philosophy consisted largely in quoting the placita ...
... spirit which destroys their real character . This happened to the Stoics and later Platonists of the Roman Empire.5 They lost the spirit of free critical enquiry , and their philosophy consisted largely in quoting the placita ...
Page 154
... spirit of obedi- ence in which a theologian devotes himself to the life and thought of his community may produce a freedom from pre - occupation with self out of which a deeper understand- ing of truth may be won ; while the advanced ...
... spirit of obedi- ence in which a theologian devotes himself to the life and thought of his community may produce a freedom from pre - occupation with self out of which a deeper understand- ing of truth may be won ; while the advanced ...
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... spirit ) is not , as compared to the others , the nearest to God , but that the hierarchy of stages in its total complexity of union , and in its network of ' prehensions ' 3 from dead matter upwards to pure spirit and from pure spirit ...
... spirit ) is not , as compared to the others , the nearest to God , but that the hierarchy of stages in its total complexity of union , and in its network of ' prehensions ' 3 from dead matter upwards to pure spirit and from pure spirit ...
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A. N. WHITEHEAD absolute abstract awareness becomes called Cassirer categorical proposition character claim co-ordinated coherence concepts concerned concrete universal conscious constructions Cosmological Argument depends Descartes described developed distinction drawn elements empirical ence existence express fact faith forms of thought function Gestalt Gestalt theory Hegel Hence human idealism idealist ideas intellectual interpretation intrinsic nature judgments of importance kind knowledge logical mathematical matter mean merely metaphysical analogies metaphysical theory mind mode models naïve realism natural theology neo-orthodox notion objects organism pattern percipient activity perspective phenomenal phenomenalist philosophy physical feelings physiological possible prehension presuppositions principle Professor Professor Price propositions question realissimum reality relation relationship religion religious symbolism response revelation scientific scientific models seek sensations sense data sense perception sensory significant spirit structure suggest symbolic forms theologian things Thomist Thomist philosophy tion total assertion tradition transcendent truth universe Whitehead whole word