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A System of Intellectual Philosophy. Second edition
A System of Intellectual Philosophy
Author: Asa Mahan
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Published: 2023-07-18
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781020737923
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This classic work provides a comprehensive overview of intellectual philosophy, including ethics, logic, and metaphysics. Written by a respected scholar and educator, this book is an excellent resource for anyone interested in the history of philosophy. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
A System of Intellectual Philosophy
A System of Intellectual Philosophy
Author: Asa Mahan
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 114
ISBN-13: 9781230338071
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1847 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter xix. the intelligence of man, as distinguished from that of the brute. It has been very common with philosophers to represent all created existences, from the highest Intelligences in heaven to the crude forms of matter, as successive links in one great chain, each link in the chain, commencing with the lowest, differing mainly in degree from that which immediately succeeds it. The highest forms of brute, and the lowest of rational Intelligence, for example, differ, it is asserted, not in kind, but only in degree. Of late, the reality of orders of existences, as successive links of a great chain, has come to be seriously doubted. The intelligence of man and the brute, it is said, differs not in degree, but in kind. If we conceive of the highest forms of brute intelligence increased to any degree whatever, as far as degree is concerned, still it makes no approach at all to real rationality. The different orders of brute instincts do constitute, it is thought, different links of one chain. Those of rational Intelligences constitute another and totally different chain, a chain none of the links of which are connected, in any form, with any of those of the other. This last is the opinion entertained by the author of this Treatise. I will now proceed to state the grounds of this opinion. I will introduce what I have to say upon this subject by two extracts, somewhat lengthy, from Coleridge. In the first, we have a classification of the different forms of brute Instinct; in the second, we are presented with two instances of Instinctive Intelligence, in their highest manifestations. Brute Instincts classified. I " It is evident that
SYSTEM OF INTELLECTUAL PHILOSO
Author: Asa 1799-1889 Mahan
Publisher:
Published: 2016-08-28
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9781373066275
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A System of Intellectual Philosophy
Author: A. S. A. MAHAN
Publisher:
Published: 2018-07-12
Total Pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9781717712844
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The second edition of Asa Mahan's, "A system of Intellectual Philosophy", was first published in 1847. This reprint publication has been thoroughly edited and reviewed to ensure that it conforms to the original. The book has been a great blessing, both to the students of Asa Mahan and all who came in contact with it, and it is our hope that the reader will be likewise blessed as well.
The True Intellectual System of the Universe
The True Intellectual System of the Universe
The True Intellectual System of the Universe; Wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism Is Confuted, and Its Impossibility Demonstrated
Author: Ralph Cudworth
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9781230362298
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1845 edition. Excerpt: ... and discussion too long, cumbrous, and unpopular, and a diction much more poetical and figurative than is consistent with the simple nature of truth. But at the same time I could wish it to be kept in remembrance that every one has his own peculiarities and mode of instruction, which a wise man ought to tolerate; and that perhaps Plato had weighty reasons, of which we are now ignorant, why he should always prefer unusual words, circumlocutions, and obscurity, to simplicity and brevity of language. XVIII. I shall not now touch upon the testimonies by which Huetius hoped to prove that Plato seemed to deny the eternity of matter; for they are taken, as I have already said, from Hierocles and similar sources, whose reasonings I have determined to consider separately. I proceed now, therefore, to the arguments by which Dacier thougnt that Plato could be rescued from his position among the advocates of the eternity of matter. First of all he reasons thus:6 " A philosopher who in so many passages asserts the unity of God, cannot have fallen into so gross an error. If matter were eternal it would then be God, and there would then be two Gods, contrary to what he has laid down." The sum of this argument is, that he who believes in one God only, cannot at the same time maintain that matter is eternal. So indeed we may admit it to be if an individual be consistent with himself, and makes his teaching agree with his doctrine respecting the divine unity. But who does not know that many philosophers have entertained several mutually repugnant opinions, and have not perceived all the consequences of their own doctrines ? This was the case with Plato, who, though he speaks so often of the unity of God, did not perceive or reflect that the unity of God...
