What Can I Know? An Inquiry Into Truth: Its Nature, the Means of Its Attainment and Its Relations to the Practical Life: Its Nature, The Means Of Its ... Its Relations To The Practical Life (1914) - Softcover

Ladd, George Trumbull

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0548732043 ISBN 13: 9780548732045

Verlag: Kessinger Pub Co, 2007

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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 questions: What shall I eat? or, What shall I drink? or, What shall I put on? In answering 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, and moral obligation. And these considerations are themselves the fruits of reflection, if not on the part of the individual, at least on the part of the clan, tribe, or race, to which the individual belongs. But what is for our present purpose more important to notice, is this: It is characteristic of human reason to ask and pursue the answer of yet more abstract and deeply hidden questions.
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• Verlag: Kessinger Pub Co
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0548732043
• ISBN 13: 9780548732045
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 324
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