 | John Locke - 1905 - 382 pages
...soul, if our faculties cannot arrive at demonstrative certainty, we need not think it strange. All the great ends of morality and religion are well enough...immateriality; since it is evident that he who made us at the beginning, to subsist here, sensible intelligent beings, and for several years continued us... | |
 | John Locke - 1905 - 424 pages
...soul, if our faculties cannot arrive at demonstrative certainty, we need not think it strange. All the great ends of morality and religion are well enough...immateriality; since it is evident that he who made us at the beginning, to subsist here, sensible intelligent beings, and for several years continued us... | |
 | Samuel Alexander - 1908 - 112 pages
...holds Him to have added thought to certain systems of senseless matter. ' All the great ends of worship and religion are well enough secured without philosophical proofs of the soul's immateriality.' The identity of the soul, whichever view be 40 taken of it, consists in the identity of consciousness.... | |
 | Jay William Hudson - 1911 - 150 pages
...setting bounds. To this omnipotence he reverts when, dissenting from the Bishop, he asserts that "All the great ends of morality and religion are well enough...philosophical proofs of the soul's immateriality" (IV, iii, §6). For even though we be material, God's power is great enough to annex immortality even... | |
 | University of Missouri - 1911 - 130 pages
...setting bounds. To this omnipotence he reverts when, dissenting from the Bishop, he asserts that "All the great ends of morality and religion are well enough...philosophical proofs of the soul's immateriality" (IV, iii, §6). For even though we be material, God's power is great enough to annex immortality even... | |
 | Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison - 1917 - 456 pages
...fixed to matter, so disposed, a thinking immaterial substance ' ; and he was of opinion that ' all the great ends of morality and religion are well enough...without philosophical proofs of the soul's immateriality ' (Essay, IV. 3. 6). Perhaps it would sound materialistic only because, under the unconscious influence... | |
 | Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison - 1917 - 452 pages
...fixed to matter, so disposed, a thinking immaterial substance ' ; and he was of opinion that ' all the great ends of morality and religion are well enough...without philosophical proofs of the soul's immateriality ' (Essay, IV. 3. 6). Perhaps it would sound materialistic only because, under the unconscious influence... | |
 | Thomas L. Pangle - 1990 - 344 pages
...this impasse has no untoward implications for our rational conviction that the soul is immortal: All the great Ends of Morality and Religion, are well...Immateriality; since it is evident, that he who made us at first begin to subsist here, sensible intelligent Beings, and for several years continued us in... | |
 | Michael Ayers - 1993 - 708 pages
...scepticism about the essence of that which thinks in us is compatible with a belief in immortality: 'All the great Ends of Morality and Religion, are well...secured, without philosophical Proofs of the Soul's Immateriality.'1 In effect he argued that consciousness of oneself as a thinking thing is not, as the... | |
 | Margaret Atherton - 1994 - 180 pages
...our faculties cannot arrive to demonstrative certainty about it, we need not think it strange: all the great ends of morality and religion are well enough...immateriality; since it is evident, that he, who made us at first begin to subsist here, sensible, intelligent beings, and for several years continued us in... | |
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... years continued us in such a state, can and will restore us to the like state of sensibility in another world, and make us capable there to receive the retribution he has designed to men according to their doings in this life. 
