What Can I Know? An Inquiry Into Truth: Its Nature, the Means of Its Attainment and Its Relations to the Practical Life - Brossura

Ladd, George Trumbull

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0548732043 ISBN 13: 9780548732045

Casa editrice: Kessinger Pub Co, 2007

Riassunto

WHAT CAN I KNOW AN INQUIRY INTO TRUTH, ITS NATURE, THE MEANS OP ITS ATTAINMENT, AND ITS RELATIONS TO THE PRACTICAL LIFE BY GEORGE TRUMBULL LADD, LL. D. LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. FOURTH AVENUE 30TH STREET, NEW YORK LONDON, BOMBAY, CALCUTTA AND MADRAS 1914 PREFACE f 1 1 HE asking of questions, and the con scious, persistent, and deliberate search J. L for their answers, is characteristically human. Even in the quest for the gratification of his appetites, the intellect, volitions, and tastes of man are involved in a quite different way from that which is the case with any of the lower animals. Only man makes a problem demanding thought and exciting anxiety out of the ques tions What shall I eat or, What shall I drink or, What shall I put on In answer-, ing these and all similar inquiries, he defers to customs that have established themselves, not merely in considerations of physical necessity, but also of propriety, aesthetical gratification, ind moral obligation. And these considerations lire themselves the fruits of reflection, if not on e part of the individual, at least on the part of e clan, tribe, or race, to which the individual fbelongs. But what is for our present purpose more im portant to notice, is this It is characteristic of human reason to ask and pursue the answer of fyet more abstract and deeply hidden questions. Some sort of interest in, and of inquiry into, the r 1 in PREFACE fundamental problems of science and philoso phy, has excited the minds of men from the very earliest traceable beginnings of human history. Nor are the motives for this interest wholly con fined to any imagined physical good or pleasur able, but as it were ab-extra experiences, which theirconjectural answer might promise to afford. The intellectual satisfaction which comes from asking and answering questions of . every sort and not by any means least, questions of the most difficult sort has operated to stimulate the human mind as much as the hope of gaining information availabl

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Kessinger Pub Co
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0548732043
• ISBN 13: 9780548732045
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 324
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