item: #1 of 8 id: 11984 author: James, William title: A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy date: None words: 75947 flesch: 60 summary: He says indeed that absolute mind in itself, and absolute mind in its hetereity or otherness, under the distinction which it sets up of itself from itself, have as their real _prius_ absolute mind in synthesis; and, this being absolute mind's true nature, its dialectic character must show itself in such concrete forms as Goethe's and Wordsworth's poetry, as well as in religious forms. Let God but have the least infinitesimal _other_ of any kind beside him, and empiricism and rationalism might strike hands in a lasting treaty of peace. keywords: able; absolute; absolute mind; absolute reality; absolutism; abstract; absurd; account; achilles; action; active; activities; activity; acts; actual; admit; advance; agents; alternative; altho; analogy; answer; appearance; argument; assumption; attempt; attitude; authority; bad; bare; beings; belief; bergson; best; better; bird; body; book; bradley; brain; calls; case; cat; categories; centre; certain; change; character; claim; clear; collective; combination; coming; common; complete; compounding; conception; concepts; conceptual; conclusions; concrete; conditions; conjunctions; conjunctive; connexion; consciousness; consists; constitution; content; continuity; continuous; contradiction; contradictory; contrary; contrast; course; creation; criticism; critics; curious; cut; day; death; definite; definition; detail; dialectic; differences; different; difficulties; difficulty; direction; discussion; distinct; divine; doctrine; drops; dualistic; duty; earth; easy; effect; effort; elements; empirical; empiricism; end; english; enormous; environment; escape; essential; evil; example; excludes; exist; existence; experience; external; extreme; eyes; face; fact; faith; fall; far; fashion; features; fechner; feeling; felt; field; final; finite; flux; footnote; foreignness; form; forth; free; function; future; general; german; god; going; good; great; greater; green; habit; half; hand; having; heart; hegel; hegelian; held; help; higher; history; hold; hope; human; hume; hypothesis; idealism; idealists; ideas; identical; identity; imagination; immediate; implicated; impression; inclusive; independent; individual; infinite; influence; inner; insight; instance; intellectualism; interest; intimacy; intimate; irrational; kant; kind; knower; knowing; knowledge; knows; larger; later; leave; lecture; left; letters; life; like; line; little; living; logic; logical; long; longer; look; lotze; making; man; manyness; material; matter; mctaggart; meaning; means; meet; members; mental; mere; metaphysical; method; mind; moment; monism; monistic; moral; movement; names; natural; nature; necessity; need; negation; new; non; note; notion; number; objections; objective; objects; obvious; oneness; ones; open; opinion; opposite; order; ordinary; original; outside; oxford; page; pantheism; pantheistic; partial; particular; parts; passing; path; peculiar; perfect; perfection; personal; persons; phenomenal; philosophers; philosophy; physical; picture; place; pluralism; pluralistic; point; position; possession; possibility; possible; post; power; practical; presence; present; previous; principle; probable; problem; process; professor; proves; psychological; psychology; pulses; pure; purpose; quality; question; quâ; radical; rationalistic; rationality; reality; reason; reasoning; recent; related; relations; relative; religion; religious; remains; respect; results; return; right; royce; said; saying; scheme; science; scientific; second; self; selves; sensations; sense; sensible; sentence; separate; series; set; shape; shows; simple; single; situation; small; solution; sort; soul; sound; space; span; spiritual; spite; stand; states; static; stop; stream; style; subject; substance; succession; sugar; superhuman; superior; supposed; sure; surface; synthesis; system; talk; technical; tendency; terms; theism; theology; theoretic; theory; things; thinkers; thinking; thought; time; tortoise; total; touch; treating; treatment; trouble; true; truth; turn; type; understanding; unintelligible; union; unity; universal; universe; use; value; verbal; vicious; view; vision; vital; vol; way; ways; wholes; wider; wise; wish; witness; words; work; working; world; writings; years cache: 11984.txt plain text: 11984.txt item: #2 of 8 id: 15780 author: Moore, Edward Caldwell title: An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant date: None words: 90438 flesch: 67 summary: Great men have always done so, confiding themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying a perception which was stirring in their hearts, working through their hands, dominating their whole being.' It was the licence of its speculative endeavour, and the identification of these endeavours with Christianity, which finally discredited Hegelianism with religious men. keywords: able; absolute; account; activity; actual; advance; age; ages; agnosticism; alleged; america; ancient; anglican; answer; antithesis; application; apprehension; area; argument; arnold; aspect; assertion; assumption; atonement; attempt; attitude; aufl; authority; aware; basis; baur; beginning; belief; belong; berlin; best; better; biblical; body; book; breadth; britain; bushnell; campbell; canon; career; carlyle; case; catholic; central; centre; century; certain; change; channing; chapter; character; characteristic; child; christian; christian church; christian men; christianity; church; churches; civilisation; claim; clear; coleridge; college; combination; common; complete; complex; comte; conception; condition; conduct; conflict; connected; connexion; consciousness; consequences; content; contradiction; contrary; contribution; country; course; critical; criticism; culture; current; das; day; dead; deal; death; debate; deep; degree; deism; deliverance; denial; dependence; desire; development; devout; die; different; difficult; direction; discussion; distinction; divine; doctrine; documents; dogma; dogmatic; doubt; duty; earlier; earliest; early; ecclesiastical; effect; effort; eighteenth; elements; emerson; emphasis; empirical; end; endeavour; england; english; enthusiasm; escape; essence; established; ethical; events; evidence; evident; evil; evolution; example; existence; experience; explanation; external; face; fact; faith; far; fashion; father; feeling; fellows; fichte; field; following; force; forecast; form; foundations; france; free; freedom; french; fundamental; general; generation; germany; geschichte; god; goethe; good; goodness; gospel; great; greater; greatest; group; growth; half; hand; happiness; harnack; heart; hegel; herder; higher; highest; historical; history; hold; holy; home; hostile; human; humanity; idealism; ideas; identical; identification; ignorance; imagination; impression; impulse; individual; influence; inner; insight; inspiration; institutions; intellectual; intelligence; intelligible; interest; interesting; interpretation; investigation; inward; issue; james; jesus; judgment; justification; kant; knowledge; known; labour; language; large; later; law; laws; learned; learning; leben; left; liberal; life; like; literary; literature; little; lives; living; london; long; love; main; making; man; manifestation; mankind; manner; marked; martineau; material; matter; meaning; means; measure; men; mere; metaphysical; method; middle; mind; miracle; miraculous; modern; moment; moral; morality; movement; mystery; narrative; natural; nature; necessary; necessity; need; new; newman; nineteenth; note; notion; object; old; opinion; opposed; opposite; order; organisation; original; orthodox; outside; outward; oxford; parallel; particular; parts; pass; paul; people; perfection; period; personality; phenomena; philosophical; philosophy; phrase; physical; pietism; place; poetry; point; popular; portion; position; positive; positivism; possible; power; practical; present; primitive; principles; problem; process; professor; progress; prophets; protestant; psychology; publication; punishment; pure; purpose; qualities; quality; question; race; radical; rationalism; reaction; real; realisation; reality; reason; recent; recognition; reconciliation; reconstruction; redemption; reference; reflection; reformation; relations; relative; religion; religious; religious life; religious men; religious thought; results; revelation; revival; right; righteousness; rise; ritschl; roman; run; sacred; sacrifice; salvation; satisfaction; save; scepticism; schelling; scheme; schleiermacher; scholars; school; science; scientific; scripture; second; self; sense; series; service; set; significance; simple; sin; social; society; solution; sort; soul; source; speculation; speech; spencer; spirit; spiritual; stages; state; statements; strauss; struggle; studies; study; subject; suffering; supernatural; supreme; sympathy; system; task; teaching; tendency; terms; testament; theme; theologians; theological; theology; theory; things; thinkers; thinking; thought; time; title; traditional; trait; transcendent; transl; trinity; true; truth; tübingen; understanding; unity; universal; universe; university; use; value; vast; view; vols; volume; von; way; william; witness; wonderful; words; work; working; world; worship; worth; writings; years; york cache: 15780.txt plain text: 15780.txt item: #3 of 8 id: 16712 author: Santayana, George title: Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy: Five Essays date: None words: 24159 flesch: 51 summary: These forces are called the passions; or when the dramatic units distinguished are longish strands rather than striking episodes, they are called temperament, character, or will; or perhaps, weaving all these strands and episodes together again into one moral fabric, we call them simply human nature. Is human nature, then, resident in each individual soul? keywords: absolute; action; actual; aesthetic; analysis; animal; arbitrary; beginning; benda; better; bodies; body; bradley; british; case; causes; century; certain; change; character; circumstances; clear; common; condition; consciousness; contrary; day; death; descartes; different; direction; divine; doctrine; dramatic; dreams; energy; english; essence; events; evil; existence; existent; experience; external; fact; false; familiar; feelings; felt; forces; form; free; fresh; freud; general; god; good; great; greater; half; hand; history; home; human; human nature; idealism; ideas; illusion; image; imagination; individual; infinite; instance; intellectual; intelligence; interests; interpretation; intrinsic; intuition; knowledge; language; life; light; literary; literature; little; living; locke; long; longer; love; material; material world; mathematical; matter; measure; mechanism; memory; mental; mere; method; mind; modern; moment; moral; morality; movement; natural; nature; near; need; new; non; note; notion; objects; occasion; old; open; opinion; order; organic; organism; origin; original; page; pain; particular; parts; passion; past; people; perceptions; perfect; personal; philosophers; philosophy; physical; physics; place; pleasure; point; political; position; possible; power; present; presuppositions; principle; private; psychological; psychology; pure; qualities; question; reality; reason; relations; religion; religious; respect; return; romantic; satisfied; save; science; scientific; self; sensations; sense; sentiment; social; society; sort; soul; space; specific; spirit; spiritual; spontaneous; studies; study; subject; subjective; substance; sympathy; system; terms; theory; things; thinking; thought; time; today; true; truth; turn; ultimate; universe; view; virtue; way; words; world; years cache: 16712.txt plain text: 16712.txt item: #4 of 8 id: 17771 author: Santayana, George title: Winds Of Doctrine: Studies in Contemporary Opinion date: None words: 61559 flesch: 54 summary: Many other things are doubtless implied in infinity which, if we noticed them, would leave us quite cold; and still others, no doubt, are inapprehensible with our sort and degree of intellect. From that common ground our imagination can perhaps start safely, and follow such hints as observation furnishes, until we learn to live and feel as other living things do, or as nature may live and feel as a whole. keywords: able; absolute; abstract; academic; account; action; actual; age; alien; american; animal; answer; arbitrary; argument; arts; attempt; attention; attitude; authority; bad; basis; beautiful; beauty; beginning; belief; bergson; best; better; bible; blind; body; calvinism; capable; case; catholic; century; certain; change; characteristic; chief; child; christianity; christians; church; circumstances; clear; common; complex; concerned; conditions; confusion; congenial; conscience; consciousness; constitution; contrary; conviction; correct; cosmic; country; course; creation; creative; criticism; day; dead; death; deep; degree; depths; description; desires; destiny; development; different; direction; distinct; distinguished; doctrine; dogmas; doubt; doubtless; dramatic; dream; earth; effort; elements; emerson; empirical; essence; essential; eternal; ethical; ethics; events; evident; evil; evolution; existence; existent; experience; expression; eyes; fact; faith; false; fancy; far; fashion; feeling; felt; field; find; fixed; flux; footnote; force; form; foundation; freedom; fresh; friend; future; general; genius; genteel; genuine; god; good; gospel; great; greater; ground; habits; half; hand; happiness; hard; heart; heaven; help; higher; historical; history; hold; honest; hope; horror; human; human life; human nature; humanity; hypothesis; ideal; idealism; idealists; ignorance; ignorant; illusion; images; imagination; immediacy; immediate; independent; individual; inevitable; infinite; insight; inspiration; inspired; instance; instinct; intellect; intellectual; intelligence; intent; interesting; interests; internal; introspection; intuition; inward; james; kant; kind; knowledge; known; labour; language; later; left; liberty; life; like; literary; little; lives; living; long; look; love; m. bergson; making; mankind; material; mathematics; matter; mean; meaning; mechanism; memory; men; mental; mere; metaphysical; method; mind; miracles; modern; modernists; moment; momentum; moore; moral; movement; music; mystical; myth; natural; nature; necessary; necessity; need; new; non; objects; observation; observer; old; open; opinions; opposite; order; organs; original; pagan; partial; particular; passion; passionate; past; people; perfect; personal; persons; philosophers; philosophical; philosophy; physics; picture; place; plato; play; pleasure; poetic; poetry; poets; point; political; poor; possibilities; possibility; possible; power; practical; practice; pragmatic; pragmatists; presence; present; primitive; principle; private; probable; problems; processes; profound; progress; prophecy; psychological; psychology; public; pure; quality; question; radical; reader; reality; realm; reason; reform; relations; religion; religious; remote; renaissance; respect; result; revelation; revolutionary; right; romantic; russell; salvation; save; saying; school; science; scientific; second; self; sense; sentiment; set; shelley; simplicity; sin; situation; small; social; society; sort; soul; space; special; specific; speculative; spirit; spiritual; spontaneous; strange; study; subject; substance; sympathetic; sympathy; system; temper; tendency; terms; theology; theory; things; thinking; thought; time; touch; tradition; transcendental; true; trust; truth; turn; ultimate; understanding; universal; universe; use; vain; value; verbal; view; vision; vital; way; ways; william; wisdom; wonder; words; work; world; worship; years; young; élan cache: 17771.txt plain text: 17771.txt item: #5 of 8 id: 2445 author: Voltaire title: Letters on England date: None words: 38043 flesch: 64 summary: was a more than great man, the director answers in the very same strain, and adds, that the member elect may also be a sort of great man, and that himself, in quality of director, must also have some share in this greatness. He proves that there is no such thing as a celestial matter which goes from west to east since the comets traverse those spaces, sometimes from east to west, and at other times from north to south. keywords: able; academy; account; acts; advantage; age; ages; america; ancient; arts; assistance; attraction; bacon; baptism; barons; beasts; bishops; blood; bodies; body; boileau; book; calculation; cato; cause; celebrated; celestial; certain; character; charles; children; christ; christian; church; circumstance; city; civil; clergy; colour; comedy; comets; commons; confess; countries; country; course; court; creatures; custom; dans; day; dean; death; degree; descartes; desirous; different; discoveries; discovery; distance; distemper; divine; dramatic; duke; earth; east; effect; england; english; errors; europe; existence; fall; famous; father; favour; feet; figure; fine; fire; fixed; following; force; form; fortune; fox; france; french; friend; general; genius; gentlemen; geometry; george; glory; god; good; government; great; great man; greater; greatest; half; happy; head; heaven; heavy; henry; history; holland; holy; honour; house; human; humour; ideas; illustrious; ingenious; inoculation; invention; isaac; isaac newton; john; justice; king; kingdom; lady; laws; learned; left; letter; liberty; life; light; like; literature; little; locke; london; long; lord; louis; love; man; mankind; manner; matter; mean; members; men; mere; merit; method; mind; mistress; moment; monarch; money; moon; motion; nation; native; natural; nature; near; necessary; newton; nous; number; obliged; occasion; old; oliver; opinion; order; paris; parliament; peers; penn; people; persons; philosophers; philosophy; pieces; planets; play; poet; polite; pope; possible; power; pox; present; pretended; princess; principle; proportion; public; purpose; quakers; queen; qui; rays; read; reason; regard; reign; religion; religious; reputation; respect; rest; revolution; ridiculous; rome; royal; sans; scarce; sciences; sea; second; sect; sensible; series; service; set; shakspeare; shows; single; singular; sir; sir isaac; small; society; soul; spirit; stars; state; subject; sublime; sun; swift; system; taste; thee; things; thou; thought; thy; time; title; tragedy; translation; true; truth; tyrants; understood; universal; unknown; utmost; velocity; venerable; verses; voltaire; waller; war; wars; water; way; west; whigs; william; women; works; world; writer; writing; xiv; years; young cache: 2445.txt plain text: 2445.txt item: #6 of 8 id: 34283 author: Benn, Alfred William title: History of Modern Philosophy date: None words: 41537 flesch: 58 summary: The possibility of reducing _à priori_ knowledge to a form of unconscious experience has put an end to dogmatic metaphysics. (iv.) A certain originality and speculative disinterestedness must be allowed to Maine de Biran (1766-1824), who, some years after Fichte--but, as would seem, independently of him--referred to man's voluntary activity as a source of _à priori_ knowledge. keywords: absolute; abstract; accepted; action; activity; advance; age; ages; agnosticism; analysis; answer; antecedent; antithesis; appearance; argument; aristotle; astronomy; attributes; auguste; author; authority; bacon; beginning; beings; belief; berkeley; berlin; best; better; bodies; body; bruno; categories; catholic; causal; causation; cause; century; certain; certainty; change; chapter; character; christian; church; claim; clear; common; complete; comte; condition; connection; consciousness; contradiction; course; court; criticism; critique; current; day; death; descartes; development; distinct; distinction; distinguished; divine; doctrine; doubt; early; earth; effect; ego; elements; end; energy; england; english; equal; essay; essence; eternal; ethics; europe; evil; evolution; example; existence; existing; experience; extension; extent; fact; famous; fichte; final; fire; form; france; free; french; fundamental; future; general; genius; geometry; german; giordano; god; good; great; greater; greatest; greek; hand; happiness; having; hegel; herbert; highest; history; hobbes; human; hume; idea; idealism; illustration; important; independent; individual; infinite; influence; instance; intellectual; intelligence; interest; interpretation; john; judgments; kant; knowledge; known; later; law; laws; left; leibniz; liberty; library; life; like; line; little; living; locke; logic; logical; london; long; love; malebranche; man; material; mathematical; matter; means; mechanical; mere; metaphysics; method; middle; mill; mind; modern; monads; moral; morality; motion; movement; natural; nature; necessary; necessity; neo; new; non; note; number; object; old; opinion; order; original; oxford; pain; pantheism; paris; particular; perceptions; perfect; perfection; period; phenomena; philosophers; philosophical; philosophy; physical; place; plato; platonic; platonism; point; political; position; positive; possibility; possible; power; present; principle; problem; process; professor; progress; public; pure; purpose; qualities; question; reaction; reality; reason; reasoning; reference; relation; religion; religious; renaissance; result; revived; right; rome; schelling; school; schopenhauer; science; scientific; second; self; sensations; sense; sequence; series; service; set; short; shows; single; sir; social; society; solution; soul; source; space; speculation; spencer; spinoza; spirit; state; step; studies; study; subject; subjective; substance; succession; supposed; supreme; synthesis; synthetic; system; teaching; tendency; terms; theological; theology; theory; things; thinker; thinking; thomas; thought; time; trans; true; truth; ultimate; universal; universe; university; value; view; vols; war; way; words; work; world; writings; years; young cache: 34283.txt plain text: 34283.txt item: #7 of 8 id: 5621 author: Cushing, Max Pearson title: Baron d'Holbach : a Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France date: None words: 33773 flesch: 76 summary: Le la Tolérance dans la Religion, ou de la Liberté de conscience par Crellius. La description si précise et si détaillée que Moïse fait du Deluge dans la Genèse, ayant une autorité infaillible, puis qu'elle n'est autre que celle de Dieu même, nous rend certains de la réalité et de l'universalité de ce châtiment terrible. keywords: --ibid; 8vo; abbé; account; affectionate; als; amsterdam; answer; anti; appendix; approbation; atheism; auf; aug; august; aussi; author; autres; aux; avait; avoir; b. m.; b. n.; b. p.; barbier; baron; basis; beccaria; bergier; berlin; best; bibliography; bibliothèque; bien; bon; bonheur; book; boston; boulanger; brit; british; c'est; carlile; castillon; cause; celle; century; certain; ces; cette; chapter; character; charming; chemistry; chez; christianisme; chrétienne; circumstances; citoyen; clergé; collection; comme; common; company; compliments; contagion; contemporary; contre; conversation; copies; copy; correspondence; country; critica; criticism; critique; curé; d'aine; d'alembert; d'un; damilaville; dans; dans la; das; daughter; david; day; days; de diderot; de holbach; de l'allemand; de l'anglois; de la; de m.; de paris; de s.; deal; dear; death; dec; del; deluge; depuis; des; desire; deux; dictionnaire; diderot; diderot et; dieu; discours; dissertation; doit; doubt; dumarsais; dévoilé; early; edition; effets; eighteenth; encore; england; english; entire; essai; est; et de; et il; et la; etc; eugenia; examen; fact; faire; fait; famous; faut; ferney; following; form; france; française; frederick; french; friend; friendship; fut; galiani; garrick; general; german; glad; god; good; gouvernement; grand; great; greatest; grimm; hand; happiness; happy; heart; helvetius; high; histoire; history; hitherto; hobbes; holbach; holland; hope; human; humble; hume; ideas; idées; iii; il de; important; incrédules; interesting; intimate; intitulé; introduction; italian; j'ai; jacques; james; jean; john; journal de; july; june; kind; king; knowledge; l'académie; l'anglais; l'auteur; l'esprit; l'origine; l'ouvrage; la nature; la religion; la révolution; la terre; lagrange; later; latin; laws; le baron; learning; leipzig; length; les; letter; lettre; leur; leyden; lib; liberté; library; life; light; like; literary; little; littéraire; livre; london; londres; long; lord; love; lui; lxvi; m'a; m. le; madame; mais; making; malesherbes; man; manière; manuscript; marmontel; materialism; matter; mdcclxviii; mdcclxx; means; mention; meslier; mind; mines; minéralogie; mirabaud; miracles; miss; mit; mlle; mme; modern; moins; monde; morale; morellet; mss; mus; museum; mémoires; métallurgie; métaux; même; n'a; n'y; naigeon; nationale; natural; naturelle; new; news; nicht; non; nos; notes; notre; nous; nouvelle; oblig'd; oeuvres; old; opinions; order; original; ouvrage; pages; par m.; paris; pas; paul; people; peut; philosophers; philosophical; philosophiques; philosophy; physical; physique; pièces; place; pleasure; plus; point; politique; por; portative; pour; pour la; preface; present; press; principes; private; privilège; préjugés; prêtres; publication; qu'il; qu'on; que; quelque; qui; raison; rare; reason; recueil; refutations; relations; religion; religious; return; revue; rey; roi; rome; rousseau; royale; rue; règne; réflexions; révolution; s'est; sacrée; saint; salon; sans; school; sciences; scientific; second; sens; sentiments; servant; ses; set; short; sincere; sir; siècle; social; society; société; son; sont; sous; spinoza; stahl; study; style; suis; superstition; sur; sur la; system; système; terre; terrible; testament; theological; thomas; thought; théologie; time; title; titre de; toujours; tous; tout; toutes; traduit de; traité; translation; trois; trop; trouve; true; truth; très; und; une; universelle; university; uns; vertu; view; viii; vol; vols; voltaire; volume; von; vous; véritable; wallerius; way; wife; wilkes; wir; wishes; works; world; writing; xxviii; years; york; young; écrit; été; être cache: 5621.txt plain text: 5621.txt item: #8 of 8 id: 9996 author: Adams, Charles Francis title: "'Tis Sixty Years Since" Address of Charles Francis Adams; Founders' Day, January 16, 1913 date: None words: 16813 flesch: 57 summary: It so chances that Scott's period of retrospect is also just now most appropriate in my case, inasmuch as I entered Harvard as a student in the year 1853--sixty years since! Written years before, at the time of publication he was thirty-three. keywords: accepted; action; advanced; african; american; applied; aristotle; best; better; body; carolina; case; centuries; century; certain; change; character; class; close; community; concerned; conditions; consideration; constitution; contrary; correct; country; course; day; days; demand; democracy; development; different; discussion; economical; entire; example; executive; existence; experience; extent; face; fact; field; form; free; fundamental; future; general; generation; good; government; great; greater; growth; hand; harvard; haskell; history; ideals; ill; immediate; individual; industrial; instance; issue; large; later; law; legislative; lieber; life; local; long; majority; man; massachusetts; matter; mind; national; natural; necessary; new; north; noses; observant; observation; occasion; outcome; parliamentary; past; people; period; place; point; political; politics; possible; power; practical; presence; present; principle; problem; process; pronounced; protection; public; question; race; reaching; recall; relations; remedy; respects; result; scientific; second; self; short; single; slavery; social; solution; south; spirit; statement; states; system; tendency; term; theories; theory; things; thought; time; trade; true; united; university; view; war; way; words; work; working; world; years cache: 9996.txt plain text: 9996.txt