 | Ingolf U. Dalferth - 2003 - 602 sider
...Kommentar: „Upon the whole, I am inclined to think that the far greater part, if not all, ofthose difficulties which have hitherto amused philosophers,...have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see."227 Nimmt man den Sachverhalt indexikalischen Sprachgebrauchs ernst, dann sind Ich-Aussagen nicht... | |
 | Walter Sinnott-Armstrong - 2004 - 248 sider
...knowledge, which He had placed quite out of their reach." "Upon the whole," he concludes, "I am inclined to think that the far greater part, if not all, of those...blocked up the way to knowledge, are entirely owing to our selves. That we have first raised a dust, and then complain, we cannot see." Berkeley expands on... | |
 | David J. Wolpe - 2004 - 202 sider
...OUR PAIN is self-inflicted? How much of our confusion is our own doing? As George Berkeley remarks, "We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see." The midrash offers a kindred insight. The Rabbis tell us that when iron was created the trees began... | |
 | Rodney Needham - 2004 - 496 sider
...think that most of the obstructions to knowledge were entirely due to the philosophers themselves: 'we have first raised a dust, and then complain we cannot see' (Principles, sec. III). The burden of the three critical papers in this volume is that we anthropologists... | |
 | Neven Sesardic - 2005 - 296 sider
...famous diagnosis of philosophers' troubles applies here very well: 33 Upon the whole, I am inclined to think that the far greater part, if not all, of those...first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see. (Berkeley 1996: 8) Let me illustrate how the anti-hereditarian consensus in philosophy (mentioned in... | |
 | Glyn Lloyd-Hughes - 2005 - 412 sider
...things, or the natural weakness and imperfection of our understandings. Upon the whole, I am inclined to think that the far greater part, if not all, of those...first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see. It is the nature of the mind of man, assisted by words, to take the observations of nature and make... | |
 | Kenneth Winkler - 2005 - 474 sider
...memorable metaphor to say that philosophers are to blame for the difficulties blocking their progress: "we have first raised a dust, and then complain, we cannot see" (1 3). This memorable metaphor is peripheral to Berkeley's core philosophical claims, so it need not... | |
 | James Garvey - 2006 - 202 sider
...underpins our experiences, Berkeley argues that the confusions which resulted lead only to scepticism. '[W]e have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.' Berkeley hopes to return us to clear thinking by eliminating some of the dust, namely, the notion of... | |
 | John Russell Roberts - 2007 - 200 sider
...Berkeley tells us, Upon the whole, I am inclined to think that the far greater part, if not the whole, of those difficulties which have hitherto amused philosophers,...first raised a dust, and then complain, we cannot see. He immediately continues: My purpose therefore is, to try if I can discover what those principles are,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1872 - 510 sider
...scientific whole. Mr. Buckle recommends every theologian and metaphysician to get by heart this sentence, " That we have first raised a dust, and then complain we cannot see." We should not wonder if Mr. Buckle's readers asserted the former clause of him, and the latter of themselves.... | |
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Upon the whole, I am inclined to think that the far greater part, if not all, of those difficulties which have hitherto amused philosophers, and blocked up the way to knowledge, are entirely owing to ourselves — that we have first raised a dust and... 
