Excerpt from The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 1877, Vol. 11 It remains to demonstrate the law of final causes, that is to say. To show that this law results, as that of efficient causes, from the relation of phenomena to the thought; but this genus of de monstration, which has appeared to us the only valuable one, seems to us interdicted by the very use we have made of it just now. We have in fact established that the possibility of thought rested upon the unity of the object, and that this unity consisted in the ...
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Excerpt from The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 1877, Vol. 11 It remains to demonstrate the law of final causes, that is to say. To show that this law results, as that of efficient causes, from the relation of phenomena to the thought; but this genus of de monstration, which has appeared to us the only valuable one, seems to us interdicted by the very use we have made of it just now. We have in fact established that the possibility of thought rested upon the unity of the object, and that this unity consisted in the mechanical connection of causes and effects. Have we not declared by that even that all other connection, and, among others that of means with ends, was foreign to the essence of thought and indifferent to its existence? We have added that the objective existence of phenomena themselves was founded upon their necessary connection. Can we search in this same existence a new basis, and will the phenomena be more true and more objective because of this unity of the series, which makes each movement born of a precedent, when there is added to 'it the unity of system which makes many movements converge towards one common end? Is it not, on the contrary, evident 'that this second unity is entirely supererogatory, and that the thought, instead of introducing it itself into things, is reduced to wait upon it as upon a happy accident and a sort of favorite of mature? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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