 | Christina Petsoulas - 2001 - 220 ページ
...life'.51 Custom becomes the 'great guide of human life' without which 'we should never know how to adjust means to ends, or to employ our natural powers in...once of all action, as well as of the chief part of speculation'.52 As will be seen, the influence of custom on the imagination provides the main link... | |
 | Gilles Deleuze - 1991 - 188 ページ
...great guide of human life. . . . Without the influence of custom ... we should never know how to adjust means to ends, or to employ our natural powers in...would be an end at once of all action, as well as the chief part of speculation.50 In short, the synthesis posits the past as a rule for the future."... | |
 | Melvyn New, Robert Bernasconi, Richard A. Cohen - 2001 - 460 ページ
..."that principle alone which renders our experience useful to us" to such an extent that without it, "[t]here would be an end at once of all action, as well as of the chief part of speculation."3"' For Kant, the empirical nature of Burke's sublime makes it necessarily "egoistic";... | |
 | Michael Huemer - 2002 - 636 ページ
...fact beyond what is immediately present to the memory and senses. We should never know how to adjust means to ends, or to employ our natural powers in...once of all action, as well as of the chief part of speculation. But here it may be proper to remark, that though our conclusions from experience carry... | |
 | Andrew Bailey - 2002 - 1002 ページ
...fact beyond what is immediately present to the memory and senses. We should never know how to adjust means to ends, or to employ our natural powers in...once of all action, as well as of the chief part of speculation. defended, either from reason, which reflecting on the great frailty and corruption of... | |
 | Various - 2002 - 596 ページ
...fact beyond what is immediately present to the memory and senses. We should never know how to adjust means to ends or to employ our natural powers in the...once of all action as well as of the chief part of speculation. But here it may be proper to remark that though our conclusions from experience carry... | |
 | Claudia M. Schmidt - 2010 - 492 ページ
...how to use our natural abilities in order to produce any effects. Withour custom we would thus reach "an end at once of all action, as well as of the chief patt of speculation" (EHU 5.6 [SBN 44-45]; cf. A t6 [SBN 652]). Finally, in his index to the Enquery... | |
 | Gordon Graham - 2004 - 264 ページ
...fact beyond what is immediately present to the memory and senses. We should never know how to adjust means to ends, or to employ our natural powers in...once of all action, as well as of the chief part of speculation. But here it may be proper to remark, that though our conclusions from experience carry... | |
 | Victor E. Taylor, Gregg Lambert - 2006 - 576 ページ
...beyond what is immediately present to the memory and the senses. We should never know how to adjust means to ends, or to employ our natural powers in...once of all action, as well as of the chief part of speculation." (Berkeley undertakes a similar backtrack from the dead end of his sceptical speculation,... | |
 | Peter Orebech, Fred Bosselman, Jes Bjarup, David Callies, Martin Chanock, Hanne Petersen - 2005 - 440 ページ
...fact beyond what is immediately present to the memory and senses. We should never know how to adjust means to ends, or to employ our natural powers in...once of all action, as well as of the chief part of speculation. Surely there may be good or bad customs and this raises the question how to decide between... | |
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Without the influence of custom, we should be entirely ignorant of every matter of fact beyond what is immediately present to the memory and senses. We should never know how to adjust means to ends, or to employ our natural powers in the production of... 
