 | Alvah Hovey - 1892 - 596 oldal
...proper sense. Indeed, Mr. Mansel has defined the word " absolute " in a very satisfactory manner. " By the 'absolute' is meant that which exists in and...having no necessary relation to any other being." This definition allows us to suppose that an absolute Being may freely originate and uphold other beings,... | |
 | William Leslie Davidson - 1893 - 512 oldal
...summarized as follows : — God, according to the metaphysician, is the Absolute and the Infinite. "By the Absolute is meant that which exists in and...itself, having no necessary relation to any other Being. By the Infinite is meant that which is free from all possible limitation ; that than which a greater... | |
 | John Milton Bonham - 1894 - 410 oldal
...and he leaves no doubt whatever as to what he means by the terms absolute and infinite. He says : " By the absolute is meant that which exists in and...itself, having no necessary relation to any other knowledge " ; and he identifies this meaning of an absolute being with Hegel's absolute being, which... | |
 | Charles Wesley Rishell - 1899 - 654 oldal
...Infinite. "By the First Cause is meant that which produces all things and is itself produced by none. By the Absolute is meant that which exists in and...itself, having no necessary relation to any other Being. By the Infinite is meant that which is free from all possible limitation; that than which a greater... | |
 | James Mark Baldwin - 1901 - 684 oldal
...contradictory of, the Infinite.' With Hamilton's follower, Mansel (Limits of Religious Thought), we find : ' By the Absolute is meant that which exists in and...having no necessary relation to any other being.' A definition compatible, as Mansel intends, with infinity in the thing defined, and consistent with... | |
 | Charles Marsh Mead - 1905 - 404 oldal
...us that "the Absolute, as such, is independent of all relation." * Elsewhere indeed he defines it as "that which exists in and by itself, having no necessary relation to any other being." 2 Prof. Fiske is more sweeping, and says that " the definition of the Absolute is that which exists... | |
 | Christopher Herbert - 2001 - 318 oldal
...is ... only possible in the form of a relation" between subject and object, echoes Mansel; but since "by the Absolute is meant that which exists in and...having no necessary relation to any other Being," therefore "the Absolute . . . is a term expressing no object of thought, but only a denial of the relation... | |
 | Asa Mahan - 2003 - 493 oldal
...God is not, in any such sense, either Infinite or Absolute. Again, 'By the Absolute,' says Mansel, 'is meant that which exists in and by itself, having no necessary relation to any other being.1 When God put forth the act of creation, he undeniably ceased to be the Absolute in any such... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1860 - 576 oldal
...Infinite. By the First Cause is meant that which produces all things, and is itself produced of none. By the Absolute is meant that which exists in and...itself, having no necessary relation to any other Being. By the Infinite is meant that which is free from all possible limitation ; that than which a greater... | |
 | 148 oldal
...Infinite. By the First Cause, is meant that which produces all things, and is itself produced of none. By the Absolute, is meant that which exists in and by itself, having no necessary rela. it find any final resting-place. The sages of India and China, of Persia and Egypt, of Greece... | |
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By the Absolute is meant that which exists in and by itself, having no necessary relation to any other Being. 
