Three Essays on Religion
Title | Three Essays on Religion PDF eBook |
Author | John Stuart Mill |
Publisher | New York : H. Holt |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 1874 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN |
Three Essays on Religion
Title | Three Essays on Religion PDF eBook |
Author | John Mill |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 2023-04-18 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 3368819380 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Three Essays on Religion
Title | Three Essays on Religion PDF eBook |
Author | John Stuart Mill |
Publisher | Theclassics.Us |
Pages | 58 |
Release | 2013-09 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781230432281 |
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 edition. Excerpt: ... NATURE "VTATURE, natural, and the group of words derived from them, or allied to them in etymology, have at all times filled a great place in the thoughts and taken a strong hold on the feelings of mankind. That they should have done so is not surprising, when we consider what the words, in their primitive and most obvious signification, represent; but it is unfortunate that a set of terms which play so great a part in moral and metaphysical speculation, should have acquired many meanings different from the primary one, yet sufficiently allied to it to admit of confusion. The words have thus become entangled in so many foreign associations, mostly of a very powerful and tenacious character, that they have come to excite, and to be the symbols of, feelings which their original meaning will by no means justify; and which have made them one of the most copious sources of false taste, false philosophy, false morality, and even bad law. B The most important application of the Socratic Elenchus, as exhibited and improved by Plato, consists in dissecting large abstractions of this description; fixing down to a precise definition the meaning which as popularly used they merely shadow forth, and questioning and testing the common maxims and opinions in which they bear a part. It is to be regretted that among the instructive specimens of this kind of investigation which Plato has left, and to which subsequent times have been so much indebted for whatever intellectual clearness they have attained, he has not enriched posterity with a dialogue Trcpl Qvgzwq. If the idea denoted by the word had been subjected to his searching analysis, and the popular commonplaces in which it figures had been submitted to the ordeal of his powerful dialectics, his...
Three Essays on Religion
Title | Three Essays on Religion PDF eBook |
Author | John Stuart Mill |
Publisher | |
Pages | 326 |
Release | 1970 |
Genre | History |
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Three Essays of Religion
Title | Three Essays of Religion PDF eBook |
Author | John Stuart Mill |
Publisher | |
Pages | 302 |
Release | 1993 |
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Three Essays on Religion
Title | Three Essays on Religion PDF eBook |
Author | John Stuart Mill |
Publisher | |
Pages | 112 |
Release | 1904 |
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Three Essays on Religion
Title | Three Essays on Religion PDF eBook |
Author | John Stuart Mill |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Nature |
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