 ... the Christian Religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one. Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity : and whoever is moved by faith to assent...  The Posthumous Works ... - Page 74de Isaac Watts - 1754 - 336 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Donald W. Livingston - 1998 - 462 pages
...reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity: And whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person,...determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience" (EU, 131). Fideism is the only way Christianity can be "reasonable." Hume is... | |
 | David Hume, Richard H. Popkin - 1998 - 158 pages
...reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity: And whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person,...determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience. Hume's brilliant and dispassionate essay "Of Miracles" has been added in this... | |
 | Immanuel Kant - 1999 - 666 pages
...reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity. And whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person,...determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience. "2S Beg your friend that it becomes him least to laugh at the eyeglasses of... | |
 | James Fieser - 2005 - 500 pages
...whoever is moved by faith to assent to it;' that is, whoever by his belief is induced to believe it, 'is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person,...determination to believe, what is most contrary to custom and experience.' An author is never so sure of writing unanswerably, as when he writes altogether... | |
 | Jaroslav Pelikan - 1999 - 308 pages
...reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity: And whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person,...determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience. In such a context the miracles of Jesus had lost all power to prove who he was.... | |
 | Nicholas Humphrey - 1999 - 290 pages
...reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity: and whoever is moved by faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person,...determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience."01 Although Hume's words sound like - and surely were meant to be - an indictment... | |
 | Margaret Atherton - 1999 - 288 pages
...reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity: And whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person,...determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience" (p. 131). The apparent contradiction between Hume's inductive skepticism and... | |
 | P.J. Bagley - 1999 - 312 pages
...reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity: And whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person,...determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience (Enquiries, p. 131). Spinoza, of course, does not share Hume's proclivity for... | |
 | John Earman - 2000 - 232 pages
...reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity: And whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person,...determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience. Notes Edition E. Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding. London:... | |
 | Stuart C. Brown - 2001 - 212 pages
...reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity; And whoever is moved bv Faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person,...determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience. NOTES 1 Plutarch, in vita Catonis. 2 No Indian, it is evidenL could have experienced... | |
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