The Works of Thomas Reid, D.D.: Now Fully Collected, with Selections from His Unpublished Letters, Volume 2Maclachlan and Stewart, 1863 |
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active power affection affirmed Anima animal appetite apprehend argument Aristotle Aristotle's Averroes belief body called cause Cicero ciples cognition colour Common Sense conceive conception conduct consciousness consequence considered contrary degree Descartes determined distinction distinguished doctrine enim Epicurus evident existence expression external faculty feeling gisms give human Hume idea immediate intel intellect intuitive judge judgment justice kind knowledge language Leibnitz liberty logic Malebranche mankind matter meaning mediate ment mind mode moral motive nature necessary necessity nerves nihil notion object observed opinion passion perceive perception phænomena philo philosophers Plato Plutarch predicate prescience present primary qualities principles of action proper proposition quæ quam quod racter rational reason regard Reid relation representationism Secondary sensation sensus Sensus Communis shew sion sophism species sunt suppose syllogism term Themistius Theophrastus theory things thought tion tive truth universal University of Glasgow virtue word τὸ
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Page 668 - Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.
Page 669 - ... is not connected with an ought, or an ought not. This change is imperceptible; but is, however, of the last consequence. For as this ought, or ought not, expresses some new relation or affirmation, 'tis necessary that it...
Page 629 - Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.
Page 773 - Cette impuissance ne doit donc servir qu'à humilier la raison, qui voudrait juger de tout, mais non pas à combattre notre certitude, comme s'il n'y avait que la raison capable de nous instruire. Plût à Dieu que nous n'en eussions au contraire jamais besoin, et que nous connussions toutes choses par instinct et par sentiment...
Page 644 - In short, it may be established as an undoubted maxim that no action can be virtuous, or morally good, unless there be in human nature some motive to produce it, distinct from the sense of its morality.
Page 572 - My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go : My heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
Page 781 - If there are certain principles, as I think there are, which the constitution of our nature leads us to believe, and which we are under a necessity to take for granted in the common concerns of life...
Page 973 - God of our youth spent herein: and for the usual method of teaching arts, I deem it to be an old error of universities not yet well recovered from the scholastic grossness of barbarous ages, that instead of beginning with arts most easy, and those be such as are most obvious to the sense, they present their young unmatriculated novices at first coming with the most intellective abstractions of logic and metaphysics...
Page 742 - ... philosophers. Common Sense is like Common Law. Each may be laid down as the general rule of decision; but in the one case it must be left to the jurist, in the other to the philosopher, to ascertain what are the contents of the rule...
Page 629 - Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which Is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.