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... possible through their advances in science and technology , and theirs therefore is the chief responsibility for its wise or unwise basic evalua- tion . Theirs is the primary duty for challenging the world's peoples to a higher vocation ...
... possible through their advances in science and technology , and theirs therefore is the chief responsibility for its wise or unwise basic evalua- tion . Theirs is the primary duty for challenging the world's peoples to a higher vocation ...
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... possible universes the one that does exist is characterized by simple , beautiful mathematical laws is for Einstein , by analogy , the ultimate scientific miracle . This miracle , moreover , makes human knowledge possible , for if the ...
... possible universes the one that does exist is characterized by simple , beautiful mathematical laws is for Einstein , by analogy , the ultimate scientific miracle . This miracle , moreover , makes human knowledge possible , for if the ...
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... possible as an idea of God would be actualized ; there are no pure possibilities , according to Spinoza's metaphysics , that remain unfulfilled ; for God's power is infinite , and expresses itself in all the infinitely possible ways ...
... possible as an idea of God would be actualized ; there are no pure possibilities , according to Spinoza's metaphysics , that remain unfulfilled ; for God's power is infinite , and expresses itself in all the infinitely possible ways ...
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... possible only because He had fashioned a world whose laws indeed were simple and mathematically elegant . God , for Einstein , became a heuristic principle . ' Many a time , when a new theory appeared to him arbitrary or forced 4 ...
... possible only because He had fashioned a world whose laws indeed were simple and mathematically elegant . God , for Einstein , became a heuristic principle . ' Many a time , when a new theory appeared to him arbitrary or forced 4 ...
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... possible transformations of the spacetime coordinates . But , so far as can be seen , no other assumption has been made ; and yet from this exiguous basis we deduce formulae of gravitation more accurate than those given by Newton's law ...
... possible transformations of the spacetime coordinates . But , so far as can be seen , no other assumption has been made ; and yet from this exiguous basis we deduce formulae of gravitation more accurate than those given by Newton's law ...
Contents
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God Guilt and Logic The Psychological Basis of the Ontological Argument | 61 |
Sociological Aspects of the Relation Between Language and Philosophy | 87 |
The Principle of Simplicity | 109 |
The Genetic Fallacy Reexamined | 129 |
The Reasoning of Holocaust Theology | 153 |
Confronting Evil and Its Unreason | 169 |
The Dream of Benedict de Spinoza | 241 |
The Dreams of Descartes | 257 |
Anxiety and Philosophy The Case of Descartes | 273 |
Spinozas Thought and Modern Perplexities Its American Career | 293 |
John Stuart Mill as a Sociologist The Unwritten Ethology | 327 |
The Sociobiological Theory of Jewish Intellectual Achievement A Sociological Critique | 357 |
Causality in the Social Sciences | 393 |
Index | 409 |
The Philosophical Method of Arthur O Lovejoy Critical Realism and Psychoanalytical Realism | 179 |
Lawless Sensations and Categorial Defenses The Unconscious Sources of Kants Philosophy | 199 |
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Page 102 - It was found that the background linguistic system (in other words, the grammar) of each language is not merely a reproducing instrument for voicing ideas but rather is itself the shaper of ideas, the program and guide for the individual's mental activity, for his analysis of impressions, for his synthesis of his mental stock in trade.
Page 338 - The laws and conditions of the production of wealth, partake of the character of physical truths.
Page 101 - We are thus introduced to a new principle of relativity, which holds that all observers are not led by the same physical evidence to the same picture of the universe, unless their linguistic backgrounds are similar, or can in some way be calibrated.
Page 54 - Not only is the mechanistic conception of life compatible with ethics : it seems the only conception of life which can lead to an understanding of the source of ethics" (The Mechanistic Conception of Life, p.
Page 342 - It must always have been seen, more or less distinctly, by political economists, that the increase of wealth is not boundless : that at the end of what they term the progressive state lies the \ stationary state, that all progress in wealth is but a postponement •,'!' this, and that each step in advance is an approach to it.
Page 338 - The distribution of wealth, therefore, depends on the laws and customs of society. The rules by which it is determined, are what the opinions and feelings of the ruling portion of the community make them, and are very different in different ages and countries; and might be still more different, if mankind so chose.
Page 206 - This domain is an island, enclosed by nature itself within unalterable limits. It is the land of truth — enchanting name! — surrounded by a wide and stormy ocean, the native home of illusion, where many a fog bank and many a swiftly melting iceberg give the deceptive appearance of farther shores, deluding the adventurous seafarer ever anew with empty hopes, and engaging him in enterprises which he can never abandon and yet is unable to carry to completion.
Page 61 - I think there is a moral to this story, namely that it is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment.
Page 69 - I, so far as actual knowledge of the object, either from its specific or general character, is concerned, am as little able to conceive of this being when I hear of it, or to have it in my understanding, as I am to conceive of or understand God himself : whom, indeed, for this very reason I can conceive not to exist.