History of the philosophy of mind : embracing the opinions of all writers on mental science from the earliest period to the present time / By Robert Blakey.

  • Robert Blakey
Date:
1850
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Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY, ETC. ETC. CHAPTER I. SCHOLASTIC METAPHYSICIANS. We come now to another land-mark in the history of the philosophy of the human mind, viz. the Scholastic Metaphysicians. These were a nu- merous, very learned, and subtile body of men; and with all those subjects which came within the range of their speculations, they showed the most complete and intimate acquaintance. At no period of the history of the human understanding, have ingenuity and refined reasoning been more fully brought into play, than by the Schoolmen; and the only lament we can express, in reference to their labours, is, that they should have wasted so much time, zeal, and talent, upon comparatively subor- dinate departments of mental philosophy. We have been brought up from our infancy with a set of preconceived notions respecting the utter t B
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