What a special providence gave the easy-going Englishman a northern neighbour to lecture him on German metaphysics in his own tongue and compel him to the definiteness which he instinctively detests.
In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries English and Scottish metaphysics developed in the main on lines of their own.
The prevalence of Realism, which marks mediaeval metaphysics down to the end of the thirteenth century, is another Platonic inheritance, and another impulse to unity.
This international division of labour is more significant in the regions of metaphysics and political thought than of physical science.
See also Metaphysics Phlebitis first recognized by Hunter, iii.
Whoever has the smallest tincture of metaphysics will know the distinction pointed at here between the qualities of bodies as primary and secondary.
Cultivation of metaphysics in Germany in the latter part of the last century, ii.
Regis, by removing the paradoxes and adjusting the metaphysics to the popular powers of apprehension, made Cartesianism popular, and reduced it to a regular system.
There are the central dogmas of logic, metaphysics and physics, from which start the subsequent inquiries of Locke, Leibnitz and Newton.
In taking this part, it does not follow that we are to repudiate, as totally without foundation, the philosophy and the metaphysics of the necessarian--aequo pretio aestimentur.
That sound metaphysics and just moral reasoning cannot really be at variance is certain, since there cannot exist contradictory truths.
Our metaphysics therefore are wrong, or there must be an unknown third principle, by which they are to be reconciled with our moral reasonings.
Madame du Chatelet, whose mind would fain have reached every kind of knowledge, but who was especially apt for metaphysics and geometry, had conceived an aversion for history.
The metaphysics of Locke lay undeveloped in his mind, just as the theory of evolution lies in so many minds at the present time.
Suarez is pronounced one of the greatest writers in speculative ethics and jurisprudence; but in the technical metaphysics of theology the Jesuits with all their literary industry did not greatly care to exercise themselves.
Then come some rather severe metaphysics on cosmogony: really, a more systematic statement of the teaching thereon which Laotse referred to, but did not (in the Tao Teh King) define.
It is as simple as A B C; and yet behind it lie all the truths of metaphysics and philosophy.
Then from Japan we get Shinto; still less a system of metaphysics or dogma.
How little of the tortuosity of metaphysics is here;--but what grand efficacity of super-ethics!
Of course, it is meaningless nonsense for the mind to which all metaphysics and abstract thought are meaningless nonsense.
But because metaphysics and physics are distinct sciences, does it follow that the man who pretends to the title of a scientist can content himself with the one and neglect the other altogether?
There is not a single one of those general notions which the science of metaphysics tries in its crucible that does not show itself again in the different treatises of theology, and present itself before us under all its forms.
It is a religion directly apprehended, and not a system of metaphysics to be analysed and argued.
It would be absurd to say that there is little difference between Buddhism and the religion of these simple people, who have no system of metaphysics to support their faith.
The principal difference is as to the organon by which the revelation affirmed to be internal and universal is apprehended; it affects the metaphysicsof the question, and, like all metaphysics, is characteristically dark.
The next step in the evolution of English thought was to consist in a return to Locke's method, involving a complete breach with seventeenth-century Platonism, and with the Continental metaphysics that it had inspired.
And we must look for the underlying cause of the whole evil in the premature union of metaphysicswith religion and morality first effected by Plato, or rather by the genius of Athens working through Plato.
Unfortunate in his life, this eminent teacher has of all original thinkers received the least credit for his services to metaphysics from posterity, being, outside a small circle of students, still utterly unknown to fame.
And, metaphysics apart, it conflicts with a leading doctrine of the essay--that is the fundamental distinction between the primary and the secondary qualities of matter.
I refer to the theory of knowledge called Pragmatism, and to the metaphysics of Professor Henri Bergson.
The next great event in Kant's intellectual career is his rejection of Continental apriorism in metaphysics for the empiricism of the English school, especially as regards the idea of causation.
But, although he gave some attention to physical science, Hegel was less interested in it than his colleague, with whose crude and fanciful metaphysics he also failed to sympathise.
The onlyMetaphysics which really and immediately sustains Ethics is one which is itself primarily ethical, and made of the staff of Ethics.
I doubt if all the metaphysics of the schools will ever get beyond it.
Now, I do not intend to go into the metaphysics of the matter.
He remarks, in this connection, "The complicatedmetaphysics of Buddhism have awakened no interest in the Japanese nation.
There are five causes preventing the study of metaphysics on the part of the general masses.
And to study metaphysics without preliminary training is worse than not to study it at all.
Isaac Israeli and Gabirol discuss special questions in Physics and Metaphysicswithout bringing them into relation with Judaism or the text of the Bible.
Of these twenty-five propositions, Maimonides continues, some are clear after a little reflection, some again require many premises and proofs, but they are all proved in the Physics and Metaphysics of Aristotle and his commentators.
Accordingly Abraham Ibn Daud devotes the entire first part of the "Emunah Ramah" to general physics and metaphysics in the Aristotelian conception of these terms.
The existence of the Jewish people and the facts of their wonderful history are more eloquent demonstrations than any that logic or metaphysicscan muster.
Otherwise the study of metaphysics is likely not merely to confuse the mind in its belief, but to destroy belief entirely.
It is sufficient for us to see here how Israeli combines Aristotelian psychology, as later Aristotelian logic and physics, with Neo-Platonic metaphysics and the theistic doctrine of creation.
These men composed an encyclopædia of fifty-one treatises in which is combined Aristotelian logic and physics with Neo-Platonic metaphysics and theology.
The highest subject of study is metaphysics or theology, the knowledge of God (cf.
Accordingly while the study of metaphysics and the explanation of the allegories of Scripture are thus shown to be a necessity of intelligent belief, it is not proper to begin with these difficult subjects.
Saadia, however, is not interested in pure metaphysics as such.
He refers the reader to the original sources in the Physics and Metaphysics of Aristotle, and contents himself with giving a list of principles which he regards as established.
Divest German metaphysicsof their obscurities, and they might seem commonplace; take away the clearness of French writers, and they might pass for profound.
The gay troubadours expounded and explained the subtile metaphysics of love in every possible way: a peerless lady was supposed to unite every possible moral virtue with beauty and rank; and hence chivalric love was based on sentiment alone.
The metaphysics of the Schoolmen, whether they were sceptical or reverential, simply sharpened the intellectual faculties without advancing knowledge.
He appealed to reason rather than authority, yet made the common mistake of the scholastics in supposing that metaphysics could explain everything.
I will not trouble you with another syllable--directly at any rate--about Latin and Greek, but I do want to know what you think about the exclusion of theology and metaphysics from the education of the young.
We have been brought up on theology and metaphysics for centuries, and we are still at daggers drawn upon matters of life and death.
It was from thought, then, that he demanded a consolation and an employment, and turning to metaphysics he began at once to plan his "Philosophy of the Unconscious.
Schopenhauer will give the receipt in a moment; but to understand the method clearly, it is necessary to take a glance at the metaphysicsof love.
This objection, however, loses much of its force when it is remembered that Schopenhauer gave to this division of his subject the title of "Metaphysics of Love," and in so doing sought solely to place the matter on a scientific basis.
And as to its real religious kernel it consists in a few fine-sounding phrases and some scattered references to a metaphysics which was once living, but which is now degraded into a mere ornament for modest minds.
The metaphysics of attention have hardly been sounded to their depths.
I took up a difficult language a very few years ago with good success, and think of mathematics and metaphysics by-and-by.
That Boy will give you the metaphysics of likes and dislikes.
