Basic Problems of Philosophy: Selected ReadingsDaniel J. Bronstein, Yervant Hovhannes Krikorian, Philip Paul Wiener |
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... reason . Should reason have been communicated to this favoured creature over and above , it must only have served it to contemplate the happy constitution of its nature , to admire it , to congratulate itself thereon , and to feel ...
... reason . Should reason have been communicated to this favoured creature over and above , it must only have served it to contemplate the happy constitution of its nature , to admire it , to congratulate itself thereon , and to feel ...
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... reason is properly intended , and which must , therefore , be regarded as the supreme condition to which the private ends of man must , for the most part , be postponed . For as reason is not competent to guide the will with certainty ...
... reason is properly intended , and which must , therefore , be regarded as the supreme condition to which the private ends of man must , for the most part , be postponed . For as reason is not competent to guide the will with certainty ...
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... reason capable of investigating all the truths about that most sublime essence . That the truth about divine things which is attainable by reason is fittingly proposed to man as an object of belief . While then the truth of the ...
... reason capable of investigating all the truths about that most sublime essence . That the truth about divine things which is attainable by reason is fittingly proposed to man as an object of belief . While then the truth of the ...
Contents
CHAPTER | 1 |
On the Improvement of the Understanding Benedict | 30 |
INTRODUCTION | 68 |
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