Metaphysics, or, the philosophy of consciousness, phenomenal and real / by Henry Longueville Mansel.
- Henry Longueville Mansel
- Date:
- 1860
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Metaphysics, or, the philosophy of consciousness, phenomenal and real / by Henry Longueville Mansel. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![substances.* The world, according to this method, is represented as an absolute whole, or entire system of causes and effects, which cannot be conceived as itself a part of any greater whole ;f and the office of Cosmology is to deduce, from the abstract principles of being in general, the necessary relations which the world, as a compound being, must exhibit. It is thus based, not on an examination of the mundane phenomena as they actually exist in the present system of nature, but on the general conception of the world, as a possible sys- tem, under which the actual system is included, as an individual under a species.;]; Cosmology, as thus exhi- bited, can contain nothing more than an analysis of general notions, and can lead to no conclusions but such as the philosopher has himself virtually assumed in his premises. The abstract notion of the world contains implicitly whatever attributes we choose to assume as its constituents ; and the metaphysical or logical analy- * Wolf, Cosmologia Generalise sects. 2, 7. The following are the questions discussed by Wolf in this work, as constituting a metaphysical theory of the material world—De notione mundi sen universi—De rerum nexu et quomodo inde universum resultet—De essentia mundi et ejus attributis—De notione corporum ex quibus mundus componitur—De essentia et natura corporum—De elementis corporum—De ortu corpo- rum ex elementis—De legibus motus—De natura universa et perfec- tion mundi—De natura universa in genere, itemque naturali et super- natural—De perfectione mundi—De ordine mundi atque naturae f Kant, Legons de Metaphysique traduites par Tissot, p. 144. | Wolf, Cosmologia, sect. 49.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28126087_0308.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
