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The Mental Philosophy of John Henry Newman

1986

I am also grateful to the following institutions for facilitating my research and writing during the academic year 1981- 82: the University of Guelph, which granted me sabbatical leave of absence for the year; the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, which granted me a Leave Fellowship for the year; the University of Birmingham, which conferred on me the status of Honorary Re [...] I have already said that the sole and final judgment on the validity of an inference in concrete matter is committed to the personal action of the ratiocinative faculty, the perfection or virtue of which I have called the Illative Sense, a use of the word "sense" parallel to our use of it in "good sense," "common sense," a "sense of beauty," &c.;—and I own I do not see any way to go farther than t [...] Is there any test of the validity of it better than the ipse dixit of private judgment, that is, the judgment of those who have a right to judge, and next, the agreement of many private judgments in one and the same view of it? [...] What has the deep and lofty thought of its disciples ended in but eloquent words?" In the same section of The Idea of a University, he reminds us that philosophy and reason failed to support Cicero under the disfavour of the fickle populace and could not serve Seneca to oppose an imperial tyrant; they abandoned Brutus in his greatest need and forced Cato into the position of defying heaven.4 A few [...] Newman's Philosophical Project 7 "very error which he is exposing right through the Grammar of Assent, the error of the cerebral approach to the great problems of existence."11 With Blaise Pascal, S0ren Kierkegaard, and the humanistic prag- matists and existentialists of our own age, Newman is interested in the "whole" person and is convinced that the great philosophers have overvalued the intelle
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Jay Newman

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233
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19
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9780889206687 0889201862
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BR100.N5
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N49 1986eb
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1 electronic text (xii, 209 p.)
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