 Since it is the understanding that sets man above the rest of sensible beings, and gives him all the advantage and dominion which he has over them; it is certainly a subject, even for its nobleness, worth our labour to inquire into.  The Southern Review - Page 1251829Full view - About this book
 | Edgar Dyke Whitmarsh - 1877 - 620 pages
...gainsaying people. — Rom. x. 19-21. Tlie word is translated by foolish, and without understanding. Since it is the understanding that sets man above...subject, even for its nobleness, worth our labour to enquire into. — LOCKE on Human Understanding, bk. ici 30. A COVENANT-BREAKER. Covenant-breakers.... | |
 | John Locke - 1879 - 722 pages
...BOOK I. CHAPTER L INTRODUCTION. • 1. An inquiry into the understanding, pleasant and useful. — Since it is the understanding that sets man above the rest of Betisible beings, and gives him all the advantage and dominion which he has over them, it is certainly... | |
 | Immanuel Kant - 1881 - 592 pages
...superiority lay in this point, and that on it must rest the lever by which all the rest was to be upheaved. ' Since it is the understanding that sets man above...subject, even for its nobleness, worth our labour to enquire into.' A certain degree of mysticism or illuminism always lurked among the opinions of Descartes... | |
 | Immanuel Kant - Causation - 1881 - 590 pages
...lay in this point, and that on it nrast rest the lever by which all the rest was to be upheaved. ' Since it is the understanding that sets man above...subject, even for its nobleness, worth our labour to enquire into.' A certain degree of mysticism or illuminism always lurked among the opinions of Descartes... | |
 | Lewis French Stearns - Apologetics - 1890 - 500 pages
...sensu." The introduction to his famous Essay concerning Human Understanding begins with the words : " Since it is the understanding that sets man above...certainly a subject even for its nobleness, worth our labor to enquire into." ' Yet it cannot be denied that at most of the points where the great philosopher... | |
 | Mattoon Monroe Curtis - Ethics - 1890 - 168 pages
...to search out their sumnum bonum." 1) Added to this, was the great attraction of the subject itself. "Since it is the understanding that sets man above the rest of sensible beings, and gives him the advantage and dominion that he has over them, it i certainly a subject even for its nobleness worth... | |
 | John Locke - 1894 - 604 pages
...Inquiry into the Understanding, pleasant and useful • — SIJsCE it is the understanding that seta man above the rest of sensible beings, and gives him...for its nobleness, worth our labour to inquire into. The understanding, like the eye, \vhilst it makes us see and perceive all other things, takes no notice... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1894 - 692 pages
...HUMAN UNDERSTANDING. INTRODUCTION *. i. SINCE it is the understanding2 that sets man above the INTROD. rest of sensible beings, and gives him all the advantage and dominion which he has over them 3 ; it is certainly a subject, even for its nobleness, worth our labour to inquire into. The Underunderstanding,... | |
 | Elizabeth Lee - English literature - 1898 - 258 pages
...knowledge ; together with the grounds and degrees of belief, opinion, and assent". " It is", he declares, "the understanding that sets man above the rest of...its nobleness, worth our labour to inquire into." The Essay is divided into four books. (l) Locke's predecessors had taught generally that the mind has... | |
 | Ludwig Noiré - Knowledge, Theory of - 1900 - 374 pages
...superiority lay in this point, and that on it must rest the lever by which all the rest was to be upheaved. ' Since it is the understanding that sets man above...subject, even for its nobleness, worth our labour to enquire into.' A certain degree of mysticism or illuminism always lurked among the opinions of Descartes... | |
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