An enquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions. An enquiry concerning the principles of morals. The natural history of religionT. Cadell, in the Strand: and A. Kincaid, and A. Donaldson, at Edinburgh., 1772 |
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... human nature , may be treated after two different man- ners ; each of which has its peculiar merit , and may contribute to the entertainment , inftruction , and refor mation of mankind . The one confiders man chiefly as born for action ...
... human nature , may be treated after two different man- ners ; each of which has its peculiar merit , and may contribute to the entertainment , inftruction , and refor mation of mankind . The one confiders man chiefly as born for action ...
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... human nature as a subject of fpeculation ; and with a narrow scrutiny examine it , in order to find thofe principles , which regulate our understanding , excite our fentiments , and make us ap- prove or blame any particular object ...
... human nature as a subject of fpeculation ; and with a narrow scrutiny examine it , in order to find thofe principles , which regulate our understanding , excite our fentiments , and make us ap- prove or blame any particular object ...
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... nature of human understanding , and fhew , from an exact analysis of its powers and capacity , that it is by no means fitted for fuch remote and abftrufe fubje & s . We must submit to this fatigue , in order to live at ease for ever ...
... nature of human understanding , and fhew , from an exact analysis of its powers and capacity , that it is by no means fitted for fuch remote and abftrufe fubje & s . We must submit to this fatigue , in order to live at ease for ever ...
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... human nature feem abftract , and of difficult comprehenfion ? This affords no prefumption of their falfehood . the contrary , it feems impoffible , that what has hitherto escaped fo many wife and profound philofophers can be very ...
... human nature feem abftract , and of difficult comprehenfion ? This affords no prefumption of their falfehood . the contrary , it feems impoffible , that what has hitherto escaped fo many wife and profound philofophers can be very ...
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... nature . And here it is conftantly fuppofed , that there is a connexion between the prefent fact and that which is inferred from it . Were there nothing to bind them together , the inference would be entirely pre- carious . The hearing ...
... nature . And here it is conftantly fuppofed , that there is a connexion between the prefent fact and that which is inferred from it . Were there nothing to bind them together , the inference would be entirely pre- carious . The hearing ...
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abfurd actions afcribe affurance againſt agreeable alfo alſo appear approbation argument arifes becauſe cafe caufe cauſe CICERO circumftances concerning conclufion confequences confider confiderable confifts connexion courſe defire deity difcover difpute diftinction effect efteem enquiry eſtabliſhed exiftence exiſtence experience fafely faid fame fatisfaction fciences feems fenfe fenfible fentiment ferve fhall fhould fide fimilar firft firſt fituation focial fociety fome fource fpecies fpeculative friendſhip ftill ftrong fubject fuch fufficient fuperftition fuperior fuppofed furely fyftem greateſt happineſs himſelf human ideas imagination impoffible inference inftance intereft itſelf juftice leaft leaſt lefs mankind merit mind miracle moft moral moſt muft muſt nature neceffity never nexion obferve object occafion oppofite ourſelves paffions particular perfon philofophers pleaſure poffeffed poffeffion poffible praiſe prefent principles purpoſe qualities queftion reafon refemblance refult regard relation religion requifite ſeems ſhall ſuch teftimony thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe tion ufual underſtanding univerfal uſeful virtue
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Seite 76 - When we look about us towards external objects, and consider the operation of causes, we are never able, in a single instance, to discover any power or necessary connexion ; any quality, which binds the effect to the cause, and renders the one an infallible consequence of the other. We only find, that the one does actually, in fact, follow the other.
Seite 57 - Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone which renders our experience useful to us, and makes us expect, for the future, a similar train of events with those which have appeared in the past.
Seite 57 - Without the influence of custom, we should be entirely ignorant of every matter of fact beyond what is immediately present to the memory and senses. We should never know how to adjust means to ends, or to employ our natural powers in the production of any effect. There would be an end at once of all action, as well as of the chief part of speculation.
Seite 148 - So that, upon the whole, we may conclude that the Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one. Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity. And whoever is moved by faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person, which subverts all the principles of his understanding, and gives him a determination to believe what is most...
Seite 67 - Here, then, is a kind of preestablished harmony between the course of nature and the succession of our ideas ; and though the powers and forces by which the former is governed, be wholly unknown to us, yet our thoughts and conceptions have still, we find, gone on in the same train with the other works of nature.
Seite 175 - But another man, who never took the pains to observe the demonstration, hearing a mathematician, a man of credit, affirm the three angles of a triangle to be equal to two right ones, assents to it, ie receives it for true.
Seite 171 - By what argument can it be proved, that the perceptions of the mind must be caused by external objects, entirely different from them, though resembling them (if that be possible), and could not arise either from the energy of the mind itself, or from the suggestion of some invisible and unknown spirit, or from some other cause still more unknown to us...
Seite 40 - ... ball return in a straight line, or leap off from the second in any line or direction ? All these suppositions are consistent and conceivable. Why then should we give the preference to one, which is no more consistent or conceivable than the rest ? All our reasonings a priori will never be able to show us any foundation for this preference.
Seite 47 - ... all our experimental conclusions proceed upon the supposition, that the future will be conformable to the past. To endeavour, therefore, the proof of this last supposition by probable arguments, or arguments regarding existence, must be evidently going in a circle, and taking that for granted, which is the very point in question.
Seite 75 - Complex ideas may, perhaps, be well known by definition, which is nothing but an enumeration of those parts or simple ideas, that compose them.