 | Francis Herbert Bradley - First philosophy - 1893 - 588 pages
...of equal defect, I will venture to transcribe some sentences from my note book. I see written there that " Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct, but to find these reasons is no less an instinct." Of Optimism I have said that " The... | |
 | Francis Herbert Bradley - Philosophy - 1897 - 664 pages
...of equal defect, I will venture to transcribe some sentences from my note-book. I see written there that " Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct, but to find these reasons is no less an instinct." Of Optimism I have said that " The... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1906 - 614 pages
...living philosopher for whom Mr. Schiller has been singularly fertile in devising opprobrious names that " Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct, but to find these reasons is no less an instinct ".1 And I may fairly appeal to the... | |
 | Edwin Alfred Robert Rumball-Petre - Free thought - 1908 - 196 pages
...working theory ; it must give us more confidence the more we follow it. Bradley7 has passed the opinion that "Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct". Whatever truth there is here, and many will judge that there is some, it seems well... | |
 | Horace James Bridges - Christianity - 1915 - 324 pages
...ultimate disloyalty against itself. For this aversion, no doubt, theology found reasons. It has been said that "metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct." Unquestionably this is true of theology, which has hitherto shown a genius for finding... | |
 | Horace James Bridges - Christianity - 1915 - 328 pages
...ultimate disloyalty against itself. For this aversion, no doubt, theology found reasons. It has been said that "metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct." Unquestionably this is true of theology, which has hitherto shown a genius for finding... | |
 | Joseph Howard Philp - Individualism - 1916 - 100 pages
...'clearance papers' are validated and viseed not so much by reason as by personal demand. Bradley has told us that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct. The Reason42 which is the universal solvent of all problems and whose advocate is the absolutist, is... | |
 | Horace James Bridges - Christianity - 1916 - 312 pages
...the elaboration of systematic theologies. A distinguished metaphysician of our time has frankly said that "Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct." The saying is most true; and accordingly we must refer to the instinct if we wish to... | |
 | Francis Herbert Bradley - First philosophy - 1920 - 662 pages
...of equal defect, I will venture to transcribe some sentences from my note-book. I see written there that " Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct, but to find these reasons is no less an instinct." Of Optimism I have said that " The... | |
 | Louis Arnaud Reid - Knowledge, Theory of - 1923 - 268 pages
...particularly in a theoretical speculative subject like philosophy, which prompted Bradley to the remark that " Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct, but to find these reasons is no less an instinct." 1 (7) All we have said of knowledge... | |
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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct, but to find these reasons is no less an instinct. 
