Publisher's Synopsis
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. 1876 Excerpt: ... English author's hand, and the doctrine of passions as motions of the soul might be especially suggestive. Cf. also the incidental remarks on language which he states and discards. Medit. p. 32. There was a necessary phase from mere Sectiok 26. Naturalism to Consciousness through which Tins runs mi I I T.i 1 1 through the Ihought had. to pass, and it is one wnicn is whole system. left for us in the masterly system of Hobbes. Sensation marks out the province to be studied; sensations are marked by words and computed in thinking: then definitions are constructed from which a world of sensations is deduced. On the sensation of fear is based the whole system of morality and religion. His theory of the will as in complete subjection.to the last desire is a still further instance of the attempt to carry out in its completeness a philosophy based on blind sensation. Into the details of that system it seems needless to enter, its basis in psychology is all that concerns us: sensation was motion, and this involved a material basis; so that a materialism was implied in the confused fundamental idea, rather than supported by his system. Hobbes derived an accurate power of defining and demonstrating.from his logical and mathematical studies (in which he was connected with Descartes) and he found systems of naturalism in vogue, which looked on the Universe as explicable on one set of principles. His original power was manifested in expressing these phenomena in terms of sensation, since he found in this a form Section 26. Similarities between Hobbes and Descartes in their introductions to their systems under which all impressions were received, and a factor from which all character was derived. How far he was helped in the details of his system by the writings of one w...
