 There is therefore a natural hostility between him and a philosophy which discourages the explanation of feelings and moral facts by circumstances and association, and prefers to treat them as ultimate elements of human nature; a philosophy which is addicted...  Autobiography - Page 274by John Stuart Mill - 1873 - 313 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1874 - 544 pages
...them as ultimate elements of human nature ; a philosophy which is addicted to holding up favourite doctrines as intuitive truths, and deems intuition...with an authority higher than that of our reason." The fiercest academic struggle of recent times took place when Mr. Mill's disciples, with Mr. Grote... | |
 | 1880 - 930 pages
...irrational association of ideas. "In particular," he adds, and the remark is specially significant, " I have long felt that the prevailing tendency to regard...marked distinctions of human character as innate, and to ignore the irresistible proofs that by far the greater part of these differences, whether between... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1874 - 556 pages
...them as ultimate elements of human nature ; a philosophy which is addicted to holding up favourite doctrines as intuitive truths, and deems intuition...with an authority higher than that of our reason." The fiercest academic struggle of recent times took place when Mr. Mill's disciples, with Mr. Grote... | |
 | David George Ritchie - 1891 - 192 pages
...them as ultimate elements of human nature ; a philosophy which is addicted to holding up favourite doctrines as intuitive truths, and deems intuition...I have long felt"? that the prevailing tendency to regarcfairilTe marked distinctions/ of human character as innate, and in the main indelible, and tol... | |
 | David George Ritchie - 1891 - 192 pages
...them as ultimate elements of / human nature ; a philosophy which is addicted to holding up favourite doctrines as intuitive truths, and deems intuition to be the voice of Nature and of God, sgeaking with an authority \ higher than that of our. reason. In particular, I have long felt' that... | |
 | Gurudatta Vidyārthī - 1912 - 370 pages
...them as ultimate elements of human nature, a philosophy which is addicted to holding of favourable doctrines as intuitive truths, and deems intuition...to be the voice of Nature and of God, speaking with authority higher than that of our reason." The above words from the pen of one of the greatest philosophers... | |
 | Mossie May Waddington - 1919 - 216 pages
...well as enlightened thought were hindered by " a philosophy which is addicted to holding up favorite doctrines as intuitive truths, and deems intuition...with an authority higher than that of our reason." The result of Mill's examination was to acquit his opponent of philosophic dogmatism, but to accuse... | |
 | Gail Kennedy - 1928 - 88 pages
...treat them as ultimate elements of human nature; a philosophy which is addicted to holding up favorite doctrines as intuitive truths, and deems intuition...God, speaking with an authority higher than that of Reason." This "prevailing tendency to regard all the marked distinctions of human character as innate"... | |
 | 1917 - 612 pages
...(and, of course, that settles it), "intuition is a philosophy which is addicted to holding up favorite doctrines as intuitive truths, and deems intuition...God speaking with an authority higher than that of reason." None can miss the sneering ridicule of the belief that anything can be higher than reason.... | |
 | Horace Standish Thayer - 1981 - 646 pages
...treat them as ultimate elements of human nature; a philosophy which is addicted to holding up favorite doctrines as intuitive truths, and deems intuition to be the voice of Nature and of God. . . . This latter philosophy, Mill adds, supports the prevailing tendency to suppose that human character... | |
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