| Immanuel Kant - 2001 - 546 Seiten
...Instinct of Brutes and Insects, can be the effect of nothing else than the Wisdom and Skill of a powerful ever-living Agent, who being in all Places, is more...are by our Will to move the Parts of our own Bodies" (Newton, Opticks (London: 1931), p. 403). Newton's conception of space as a manifestation of God reflects... | |
| Beatrice Bruteau, Bede Griffiths - 1996 - 422 Seiten
...to himself."14 God not only perceives all things, but can act through them. According to Newton, God "being in all places, is more able by his will to...than we are by our will to move the parts of our own bodies."15 For Newtonian physics, Absolute space was the container of all things and the medium through... | |
| Christopher B. Kaiser - 1997 - 480 Seiten
...since the very framework of space and time was his emanent effect. Thus, God was...428 ...a powerful ever-living Agent, who being in all Places, is more...the Bodies within his boundless uniform Sensorium [space], and thereby to form and reform the Parts of the Universe, than we are by our Will to move... | |
| Ezio Vailati - 1997 - 263 Seiten
...the divine sensorium. In the 1706 Optice, Newton described God as "more able by his Will to move all Bodies within his boundless uniform Sensorium, and thereby to form and reform all the Parts of the Universe, than our soul, which is in us the image of God, is able by its will... | |
| Michael Stausberg - 1998 - 1146 Seiten
...instinct of brutes and insects, can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living Agent, who, being in all places, is more...universe, than we are by our will to move the parts of our body". Isaac Newton hat dem zitierten Passus in einer späteren Ausgabe folgende Klarstellung hinzugefügt:... | |
| Daniel Garber, Michael Ayers - 1998 - 992 Seiten
...not an intermediary spirit of Nature in the manner of More, but the direct intervention of God who is able 'by his Will to move the Bodies within his boundless uniform Sensorium'. John Locke, Newton's distinguished countryman, came eventually to appreciate and endorse Newton's conception... | |
| Benno Werlen - 1999 - 262 Seiten
...Instinct of Bruts and Insects, can be the effect of nothing eise, than the Wisdom and Skill of a powerful ever-living Agent, who being in all Places, is more...than we are by our Will to move the Parts of our own Bodies».27 Hier wird also die bisher angedeutete Beziehung zwischen Gott und dem absoluten Raume präzisiert.... | |
| Roberto Torretti - 1999 - 532 Seiten
...by their immediate presence to himself" (Opticks, p. 370). This "powerful, ever-living Agent [. . .] being in all Places, is more able by his Will to move...are by our Will to move the Parts of our own Bodies" (Opticks, p. 403). I cannot say that I understand these theological pronouncements. I mention them... | |
| Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz, Samuel Clarke - 2000 - 132 Seiten
...instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent, who, being in all places, is more...to form and reform the parts of the universe, than our spirit which is in us the image of God is able by our will to move the parts of our own bodies.... | |
| Roger Ariew, Eric Watkins - 2000 - 326 Seiten
...instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent, who, being in all places, is more...to form and reform the parts of the universe, than our spirit, which is in us the image of God, is able by our will to move the parts of our own bodies.... | |
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