Category: Philosophy & Ethics
The divine Plato and the marvellous Kant unite their mighty voices in recommending a rule, to serve as the method of all philosophising as well as of all other science.[11] Two laws, they tell us: the law of _homogeneity_ and the law of _specification_, should be equally obser...
The divine Plato and the marvellous Kant unite their mighty voices in recommending a rule, to serve as the method of all philosophising as well as of all other science.[11] Two...
2. CHAPTER II.A more or less accurately defined, abstract expression for so fundamental a principle of all knowledge must have been found at a very early age; it would, therefore, be difficul...
3. CHAPTER III.From the summary given in the preceding chapter we gather, that two distinct applications of the principle of sufficient reason have been recognized, although very gradually, ve...
4. CHAPTER IV.The first class of objects possible to our representative faculty, is that of _intuitive, complete, empirical_ representations. They are _intuitive_ as opposed to mere thoughts,...
5. CHAPTER V.The only essential distinction between the human race and animals, which from time immemorial has been attributed to a special cognitive faculty peculiar to mankind, called _Rea...
6. CHAPTER VI.It is the formal part of complete representations--that is to say, the intuitions given us _à priori_ of the forms of the outer and inner sense, _i.e._ of Space and of Time--whi...
7. CHAPTER VII.The last Class of Objects for our representative faculty which remains to be examined is a peculiar but highly important one. It comprises but _one_ object for each individual:...
8. CHAPTER VIII.The order of succession in which I have stated the various forms of the Principle of Sufficient Reason in this treatise, is not systematic; it has been chosen for the sake of gr...
9. Part 2, contains three important articles by Csoma Körösi,including Analyses of the Books of the Kandshur.--19. Sangermano, "The Burmese Empire," Rome, 1833.--20. Turnour, "The Mahawanzo," Ceylon, 1836.--21. Upham, "The Mahavansi, Raja...