 ... somewhat different points of view, had been followed in England by Cudworth, Clarke, and Price, became still more celebrated in Germany through the writings of Kant. By him all a posteriori methods of accounting for the nature and origin of morality...  The Metaphysic of Ethics - Page 134by Immanuel Kant - 1836 - 378 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Jacob Gould Schurman - 1881 - 128 pages
...solely by the legislation of man's own reason, it brings with it a feeling of exaltation. It connects us with an order of things unapproached by sense, into which the force of reason can alone pierce. Beneath this supersensible lies the phenomenal system, wherewith man has only a fortuitous and contingent... | |
 | Jacob Gould Schurman - 1881 - 136 pages
...solely by the legislation of man's own reason, it brings with it a feeling of exaltation. It connects us with an order of things unapproached by sense, into which the force of reason can alone pierce. Beneath this supersensible lies the phenomenal system, wherewith man has only a fortuitous and contingent... | |
 | Richard Salter Storrs - 1884 - 704 pages
...behooves us to approximate, exerting ourselves thitherward in an unbroken and a perpetual progression. . . Verily, it can be nothing less than what advances...him with an order of things unapproached by sense." — [Kant: "Metaphysic of Ethics": (Semple's trans.); Edinburgh ed., 1SGD : pp. 243, 116, 120. XXV.... | |
 | Thomas Fowler, J. M. Wilson - 1886 - 186 pages
...accounting for the nature and origin of morality are rejected as alike insufficient and degrading : ' Duty ! Thou great, thou exalted name ! Wondrous thought,...wherewith man has only a fortuitous and contingent connexion, and so along with it the whole of his adventitiously determinable existence in space and... | |
 | Thomas Fowler, John Matthias Wilson - 1886 - 184 pages
...accounting for the nature and origin of morality are rejected as alike insufficient and degrading : ' Duty ! Thou great, thou exalted name ! Wondrous thought,...wherewith man has only a fortuitous and contingent connexion, and so along with it the whole of his adventitiously determinable existence in space and... | |
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