 | William James - Belief and doubt - 1896 - 374 pages
...both of what exists and of what does not exist, we must consult not science, but what Pascal calls our heart. Science herself consults her heart when she...of other goods which man's heart in turn declares. The question of having moral beliefs at all or not having them is decided by our will. Are our moral... | |
 | John Hays Gardiner - English language - 1900 - 520 pages
...both of what exists and of what does not exist, we must consult not science, but what Pascal calls our heart. Science herself consults her heart when she...of other goods which man's heart in turn declares. The question of having moral beliefs at all or not having them is decided by our will. Are our moral... | |
 | Harrison Ross Steeves, Frank Humphrey Ristine - Literary Collections - 1913 - 556 pages
...both of what exists and of what does not exist, we must consult not science, but what Pascal calls our heart. Science herself consults her heart when she...of other goods which man's heart in turn declares. The question of having moral beliefs at all or not having them is decided by our will. Are our moral... | |
 | Bernard M. G. Reardon - Religion - 1966 - 420 pages
...both of what exists and of what does not exist, we must consult not science, but what Pascal calls our heart. Science herself consults her heart when she...of other goods which man's heart in turn declares. The question of having moral beliefs at all or not having them is decided by our will. Are our moral... | |
 | Charles S. Peirce - Philosophy - 1982 - 388 pages
...his Witnesses to the Unseen (Macmillan & Co., 1893). consult not science, but what Pascal calls our heart. Science herself consults her heart when she...of other goods which man's heart in turn declares. The question of having moral beliefs at all or not having them is decided by our will. Are our moral... | |
 | Barbara MacKinnon - Philosophy - 1985 - 710 pages
...both of what exists and of what does not exist, we must consult not science, but what Pascal calls our heart. Science herself consults her heart when she...of other goods which man's heart in turn declares. The question of having moral beliefs at all or not having them is decided by our will. Are our moral... | |
 | Kelly James Clark - Philosophy - 1990 - 172 pages
...inconsistendy accepts Clifford's Maxim; his very acceptance of that maxim is a passional decision. Says James: "Science herself consults her heart when she lays...correction of false belief are the supreme goods for man" (WTB, 22). Given that the choice between Jamesian empiricism and Cliffordian skepticism is a passional... | |
 | William James - Philosophy - 2000 - 404 pages
...both of what exists and of what does not exist, we must consult not science, but what Pascal calls our heart. Science herself consults her heart when she...of other goods which man's heart in turn declares. The question of having moral beliefs at all or not having them is decided by our will. Are our moral... | |
 | J. H. Woodger - Biology - 2000 - 528 pages
...inductive inference, as well as on the intuitive belief in truth and moral values. William James wrote : ' Science herself consults her heart when she lays it...all sorts of other goods which man's heart in turn declares.'1 That the whole pursuit of science rests upon moral judgments is clear from the fact that... | |
 | Hunter Brown - Religion - 2000 - 204 pages
...of what does not exist, we must consult not science, but what Pascal calls our heart.'100 Moreover: Science herself consults her heart when she lays it...all sorts of other goods which man's heart in turn declares.101 The same applies in many cases even to evidence itself: 'one's conviction that the evidence... | |
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Science can tell us what exists; but to compare the worths, both of what exists and of what does not exist, we must consult not science, but what Pascal calls our heart. Science herself consults her heart when she lays it down that the infinite ascertainment... 
