Philosophie wikisource autobiography

  • When these were written, I returned to the subject, and now for the first time fell in with Comte's Cours de Philosophie Positive, or rather with the two.
  • Neither miraculous nor infallible, man is nevertheless the only trustworthy record of the Divine mind in things pertaining to God. Man's reason, conscience, and.
  • My obligations to Comte were only to his writings—to the part which had then been published of his “Système de Philosophie Positive:” and.

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    Autobiography (Mill)/Chapter VII

    1. ↑[Miss Helen Taylor, the inheritor of much of her wisdom, and of all her nobleness of character,] (Wikisource contributor note)
    2. ↑[and have already made her name better and more widely known than was that of her mother, though far less so than I predict, that if she lives it is destined to become. Of the value of her direct cooperation with me, something will be said hereafter, of what I owe in the way of instruction to her great powers of original thought and soundness of practical judgment, it would be a vain attempt to give an adequate idea]. (Wikisource contributor note)
    3. ↑[the least considerable of whom, and above all the least original, is the one whose name is attached to it]. (Wikisource contributor note)
    4. ↑[at my daughter’s suggestion] (Wikisource contributor note)
    5. ↑[it was enriched with some important ideas of my daughter’s, and passages of her writing. But] (Wikisource contributor note)
    6. ↑[and I shall always feel grateful to my daughter that her urgency prevailed on me to write it when I did, for we were then on the point of setting out for a journey of some months in Greece and Turkey, and but for her, I should have deferred writing till our return]. (Wikisource contributor note)
    7. ↑[The time appeared to my daughter, Miss Helen

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      An Autobiography/Chapter VI


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      The Philosophy of Bergson (Russell)


      THE classification of philosophies is effected, as a rule, either by their methods or by their results: “empirical” and “a priori” is a classification by methods, “realist” and “idealist” is a classification by results. An attempt to classify Bergson’s philosophy in either of these ways is hardly likely to be successful, since it cuts across all the recognized divisions.

      But there is another way of classifying philosophies, less precise, but perhaps more helpful to the non-philosophical; in this way, the principle of division is according to the predominant desire which has led the philosopher to philosophize. Thus we shall have philosophies of feeling, inspired by the love of happiness; theoretical philosophies, inspired by the love of knowledge; and practical philosophies, inspired by the love of action.

      Among philosophies of feeling we shall place all those which are primarily optimistic or pessimistic, all those that offer schemes of salvation or try to prove that salvation is impossible; to this class belong most religious philosophies. Among theoretical philosophies we shall place most of the great systems; for though the desire for knowledge is rare, it has been the source of most of what is best in philosophy. Practical phi