| Alexander Robertson (of Dun Donnochy.) - 1866 - 104 pages
...own eyes.' Kant endeavours to draw a distinction between logical and moral certainty ; and says, ' / am morally certain, that is, my belief in God, and...the former torn from me, as of losing the latter.' Burlamaqui, in his Principles of Natural and Politic Law, says, ' the existence of God, that is, of... | |
| Constance E. Plumptre - 1879 - 364 pages
...that there is a God, and so on ; but, / am morally certain, and so on. That is to say, the belief in a God and in another world is so interwoven with my moral nature, that the former can no more vanish than the latter can ever be torn from me. ' The only point to be remarked... | |
| Constance E. Plumptre - 1879 - 366 pages
...that there is a God, and so on ; but, 7 am morally certain, and so on. That is to say, the belief in a God and in another world is so interwoven with my moral nature, that the former can no more vanish than the latter can ever be torn from me. 1 The only point to be remarked... | |
| 1883 - 836 pages
...that there is a God, and so on ; but, / am morally certain, and so on. That is to say, the belief in a God and in another world is so interwoven with my moral nature, that the former can no more vanish than the latter can ever be torn from me. "The only point to be remarked... | |
| Immanuel Kant - 1884 - 592 pages
...certainty ; and since it rests on subjective grounds (of the moral sentiment), I must not even say : It is morally certain that there is a God, &c., but : 1...this argument that may appear open to suspicion, is thajt this rational belief presupposes the existence of moral sentiments. If we give up this assumption,... | |
| 1884 - 652 pages
...proceeds, and a region wherein his will is unconditionally done. A great philosopher, Emanuel Kant, says, " My belief in God and in another world is so interwoven...the former torn from me as of losing the latter." But Sir, however we know God, we only know him as working within conditions. And now before asking... | |
| Nathaniel Holmes - 1888 - 518 pages
...the moral sentiment) , I must not even say, It is morally certain that there is a God, etc., hut, I am morally certain, that is, my belief in God and in another world is so interwoven with my moral Another disciple of this school, for whom metaphysics is (as it were) " the despair of surgery," is... | |
| Thomas Henry Huxley - 1896 - 346 pages
...there is a God, and so on ; but, I am morally certain, and so on. That is to say : the belief in a God and in another world is so interwoven with my moral nature, that the former can no more vanish, than the latter can ever be torn from me. " The only point to be remarked... | |
| James Lindsay - 1897 - 646 pages
...recall what Kant so nobly says in his ' Kritik der reinen Vernunft ' (ed. Hartenstein, p. 5SS) : " Belief in God and in another world is so interwoven with my moral nature (Gesinnung), that the former can no more vanish than the latter can ever be torn from me. The only... | |
| Stephen Sheldon Colvin - 1897 - 78 pages
...say : It is morally certain that there is a God, etc., but 1 am morally certain, etc., that is, the belief in God and in another world is so interwoven with my moral sentiment that I am under as little apprehension of losing the former as of having the latter torn... | |
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