Areopagitica: A Speech to the Parliament of England, for the Liberty of Unlicensed PrintingR. Hunter, successor to Mr. Johnson ... and Richard Steevens, 1819 - 311 pages |
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... mind. You have a body and a brain, but they don't exist independently of your mind. Your body and your brain work together to keep you alive. Your mind also plays an important role in keeping your body functioning properly. It keeps ...
... mind. You have a body and a brain, but they don't exist independently of your mind. Your body and your brain work together to keep you alive. Your mind also plays an important role in keeping your body functioning properly. It keeps ...
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... mind . The differences between the physical and the mental were thus represented as differences inside the common ... mind's perception of a flash of light ? This notorious crux by itself shows the logical mould into which Descartes ...
... mind . The differences between the physical and the mental were thus represented as differences inside the common ... mind's perception of a flash of light ? This notorious crux by itself shows the logical mould into which Descartes ...
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... mind and body. According to Descartes, each essence has different modes or modifications in which it can occur. Bodies are infinitely divisible. That is, they can in principle be ... mind. If A DOZEN PROBLEMS IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF MIND 15.
... mind and body. According to Descartes, each essence has different modes or modifications in which it can occur. Bodies are infinitely divisible. That is, they can in principle be ... mind. If A DOZEN PROBLEMS IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF MIND 15.
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... mind may take root , by which it may possess an independence worthy a being whose eternal destiny is in his own hands --- so the moral and civil institutions , the actual condition of society , is the at- mosphere which surrounds and ...
... mind may take root , by which it may possess an independence worthy a being whose eternal destiny is in his own hands --- so the moral and civil institutions , the actual condition of society , is the at- mosphere which surrounds and ...
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... mind is a special kind of substance, a non-bodily substance within the body. Plato and Plotinus believed something ... Mind), to find fault with Homer for his lack of such a notion. But if we agree with such modern philosophers as ...
... mind is a special kind of substance, a non-bodily substance within the body. Plato and Plotinus believed something ... Mind), to find fault with Homer for his lack of such a notion. But if we agree with such modern philosophers as ...
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Page 153 - Justice in defence of beleaguered truth, than there be pens and heads there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty, the approaching Reformation : others as fast reading, trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and convincement.
Page 154 - Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.
Page 88 - Not what they would ? what praise could they receive ? What pleasure I from such obedience paid ? When will and reason, reason also is choice, Useless and vain, of freedom both despoil'd, Made passive both, had served necessity, Not me?
Page 65 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised, and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather ; that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.
Page vi - These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the inspired gift of God, rarely bestowed, but yet to some (though most abuse) in every nation; and are of power, beside the office of a pulpit, to imbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility...
Page 173 - And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?
Page 122 - Those morning haunts are where they should be, at home ; not sleeping, or concocting the surfeits of an irregular feast, but up and stirring, in winter often ere the sound of any bell awake men to labor, or to devotion; in summer as oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier, to read good authors, or cause them to be read, till the attention be weary, or memory have its full fraught; then with useful and generous labors preserving the body's health and hardiness...
Page 5 - For this is not the liberty which we can hope, that no grievance ever should arise in the commonwealth ; that let no man in this world expect; but when complaints are freely heard, deeply considered, and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for...
Page 109 - Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 195 - This I know, that errors in a good government and in a bad are equally almost incident...