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 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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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:...
1. CHAPTER I.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...
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...