Works of Thomas Hill Green: Philosophical works

Thomas Hill Green

Longmans, Green and Company, 1894 - Philosophy, Modern

Contents

• Distinction between literary history and the history of philo: 3
• What is the tablet impressed? 10: 11
• The simple idea as ectype other than mere sensation: 17
• Only as such can it be named: 21
• Such are substance and relation which must be found in every: 27
• The confusion covered by use of particulars: 33
• Yet according to the doctrine of relation a creation of thought: 39
• It assumes that simple ideas are consciously referred to things: 45
• Reasons why its testimony must be trusted: 47
• Such restriction if maintained would render the testimony: 53
• This invented relation forms the very being of things: 59
• Only to nominal essences that general propositions relate i e only: 65
• Ground of distinction between actual sensation and ideas in: 71
• Hence another view of real essence as unknown qualities of: 75
• How can primary qualities be outside consciousness and: 81
• Only about qualities of matter as distinct from matter itself that: 88
• Why they do not trouble him more: 94
• Fatal to the notion that mathematical truths though general: 99
• With Locke mathematical truths though ideal true also: 105
• The mind which Locke opposes to matter perpetually shifting: 111
• Infinity according to Lockes account of it only applicable: 117
• It cannot be known consistently with Lockes doctrine of real: 123
• There must have been something from eternity to cause what: 126
• Yes according to the true notion of the relation between thought: 130
• What is meant by relation of mind and matter?: 134
• Berkeley goes wrong from confusion between thought and feeling: 140
• If so it is not space at all but Berkeley thinks it is only: 146
• His way of dealing with physical truths: 152
• Physiology wont answer the question that Locke asked: 164
• His account of these: 171
• Substancescollections of ideas: 177
• Are there general ideas? Berkeley said yes and no: 178
• All propositions restricted in same way as Lockes propositions: 184
• It will not do to oppose bodies to our feeling when only feeling: 190
• Yet the parts of space are coexistent not successive: 196
• Can a disposition of coloured points be an impression?: 202
• し pearance of doing so by treating consideration of the rela: 210
• What becomes of the exactness of mathematics according: 230
• How it is that we talk as if we had idea of vacuum according: 237
• Yet seems other than this How this appearance is to be: 243
• 398: 246
• Examination of Humes language about them: 250
• Identity of objects an unavoidable crux for Hume: 254
• Are these several fictions really different from each other?: 260
• Their true correlativity: 266
• Hume evades this question still he is a long way off the Induc: 272
• Hume changes the meaning of this expectation by his account: 276
• Not seeing this Hume has to explain inference to latter system: 282
• But this distinction he only professes to adopt in order to explain: 288
• Disposes of personal identity by showing contradictions: 295
• Humes doctrine of morals parallel to his doctrine of nature: 301
• Greatest sum of pleasure and Pleasure in general unmeaning: 307
• What is meant by present and future pleasure?: 314
• Conformity to law not the moral good but a means to it: 320
• Chiefly that affections terminate upon their objects: 326
• His account of direct passions: 332
• Another device is to suggest a physiological account of pride: 339
• What pleasure?: 345
• All passions equally interested or disinterested: 346
• How Hume gives meaning to this otherwise unmeaning defini: 352
• Moral sense is thus sympathy with pleasure qualified by consider: 358
• Interest and sympathy account for all obligations civil and moral: 364
• And even this not consistently accounted for: 370
• APPLICATION OF THE DOCTRINE OF EVOLUTION: 373
• A relation between subject and object is the datum of Mr Spen: 385
• independent than his mind: 400
• But a succession of sensations cannot form an aggregate independ: 407
• Or objective for the minimum percipibile is not and does not con: 413
• Nor is the distinction between perceived and conceived or: 419
• His equivocal use of antecedent: 426
• For true idealism ego and nonego are correlative factors of: 432
• Unless as by Mr Spencer it is already implied in them: 438
• Nor felt things but for something not a feeling: 444
• ascribed to it: 451
• VOL I: 455
• Can it be explained from the psychological medium or psycho: 457
• This ambiguous account of psychoplasm is really accommodated: 463
• Transition to the social medium: 469
• For physiological processes are not continued into consciousness: 475
• The fallacy of which in treating the object as outside con: 481
• Nor can object be understood in any sense which does: 488
• He himself implies that the real is not the external as such: 494

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Bibliographic information

• Title: Works of Thomas Hill Green: Philosophical works; Volume 1 of Works of Thomas Hill Green, Thomas Hill Green
• Author: Thomas Hill Green
• Publisher: Longmans, Green and Company, 1894