 | Paul B. Scheurer, G. Debrock - History - 1988 - 406 pages
...corporeal things... We know him only by his most wise and excellent continuance of things and final causes; we admire him for his perfections; but we...providence, and final causes, is nothing else but Fate and Nature.61 Newton's stress on God's dominion, his omnipresence and transcendence, and his being beyond... | |
 | J.E. Force, R.H. Popkin - Biography & Autobiography - 1990 - 244 pages
...argument from design: We know him only by his most wise and excellent continuance of things and final causes; we admire him for his perfections; but we...providence, and final causes, is nothing else but Fate and Nature.21 Newton's stress on God's dominion, on God's omnipresence and transcendence, and on God's... | |
 | Detmar Doering - Classicism - 1990 - 330 pages
...Gegensatz zu manchen seiner (meist französischen) Schüler kein vollständiger Determinist war. Denn: "Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly...everywhere, could produce no variety of things."; Isaac Newton, Newton's Philosophy of Nature, op.cit., S. 44 2) Dies soll natürlich nicht heißen,... | |
 | Richard Henry Popkin - Philosophy - 1992 - 394 pages
...corporeal thing. ...We know him only by his most wise and excellent continuance of things and final causes; we admire him for his perfections; but we...providence, and final causes, is nothing else but Fate and Nature.49 48 Westfall, "Newton's Theologicae Gentilis" , p. 16. Newton's stress on God's dominion,... | |
 | Richard S. Westfall - Biography & Autobiography - 1994 - 356 pages
...material image. We have ideas of His attributes; we cannot know His substance. We know Him by His works; we admire Him for His perfections; "but we reverence...final causes, is nothing else but Fate and Nature." So far, he concluded, he had explained the phenomena of the heavens by the force of gravity but had... | |
 | Otfried Schütz - Art - 1993 - 512 pages
...Gegensatz zu manchen seiner (meist französischen) Schüler kein vollständiger Determinist war. Denn: "Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly...everywhere, could produce no variety of things."; Isaac Newton, Ncwton'a Philosophy of Nature, op.cit., S. 44 2) Dies soll natürlich nicht heißen,... | |
 | James M. Byrne - Religion - 1997 - 272 pages
...the Principia that 'We know him only by his most wise and excellent contrivances of things, and final causes; we admire him for his perfections; but we...final causes, is nothing else but Fate and Nature . . . But, by way of allegory, God is said to see, to speak, to laugh, to love, to hate, to desire,... | |
 | Sara Schechner - Religion - 1999 - 386 pages
...that we know God "only by his most wise and excellent contrivances of things, and final causes; . . . and a god without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but Fate and Nature."147 Laplace responded that anyone who traced the history of human errors and the progress of... | |
 | Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz, Samuel Clarke - Philosophy - 2000 - 132 pages
...excellent contrivances of things and final causes; we admire him for his perfections, but we revere and adore him on account of his dominion. <For we...final causes is nothing else but fate and nature. No variation of things can arise from blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always... | |
 | Roger Ariew, Eric Watkins - Philosophy - 2000 - 326 pages
...excellent contrivances of things and final causes; we admire him for his perfections, but we revere and adore him on account of his dominion. <For we...final causes is nothing else but fate and nature. No variation of things can arise from blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always... | |
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We know him only by his most wise and excellent contrivances of things, and final causes; we admire him for his perfections; but we reverence and adore him on account of his dominion: for we adore him as his servants; and a god without dominion, providence,... 
