This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...the need of a revelation--a heaven-sent guide to teach us our religious duties. Plato found the authority for the moral life of man in innate ideas, in the recollection of the Good and the Lovely which our souls contemplated with God in their pre-natal condition. The Cyrenaics despaired of knowledge. Aristotle gave ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...the need of a revelation--a heaven-sent guide to teach us our religious duties. Plato found the authority for the moral life of man in innate ideas, in the recollection of the Good and the Lovely which our souls contemplated with God in their pre-natal condition. The Cyrenaics despaired of knowledge. Aristotle gave prominence to empiric knowledge, defending sensuous perception on the ground that the senses never deceive us. The Stoics were sheer empirics. The Epicureans theoretically accepted sensuous perception and the resulting concepts as criteria of truth, but in practice they held to the personal feeling of pleasure and pain as the basis of moral conduct. The Academics rejected both the evidence of the senses and the intellect as guides; they also repudiated knowledge by concepts because these bore no hall-mark of veracity, and the same object generated different concepts in different minds. Man must rest in suspension of judgment, and the highest criterion for moral conduct is probability. Man grew weary of uncertainty, and as attention centred more upon the ethics of the individual, he demanded a working criterion. The Eclectics were the most practical thinkers of a practical age. They placed the standard for decision between true and false, right and wrong, in each man's self-consciousness where truth is given immediately; the ordinary self-consciousness gives the final decision in philosophic questions. 'Thus innate knowledge forms the transition to that form of philosophy which only goes back to self-consciousness, in order to receive in it the revelation of God.'1 Eclecticism opened the way for, and went hand in hand with, the philosophy of Revelation. External Revelation is complementary to internal. This is the position taken so strongly by Cic...
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