"It must needs follow from hence, that Knowledge is an Inward and Active Energy of the Mind it self, and the displaying of its own Innate Vigour from within, whereby it doth Conquer, Master and Command its Objects, and so begets a Clear, Serene, Victorious, and Satisfactory Sense within it self."
— Cudworth, Ralph (1617-1688)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for James and John Knapton
Date
1731
Metaphor
"It must needs follow from hence, that Knowledge is an Inward and Active Energy of the Mind it self, and the displaying of its own Innate Vigour from within, whereby it doth Conquer, Master and Command its Objects, and so begets a Clear, Serene, Victorious, and Satisfactory Sense within it self."
Metaphor in Context
Having hitherto shewed that Sense or Passion from Corporeal Things existent without the Soul, is not Intellection or Knowledge, so that Bodies themselves are not known or understood by Sense; It must needs follow from hence, that Knowledge is an Inward and Active Energy of the Mind it self, and the displaying of its own Innate Vigour from within, whereby it doth Conquer, a Master and Command its Objects, and so begets a Clear, Serene, Victorious, and Satisfactory Sense within it self.
(IV.i, p. 126)
(IV.i, p. 126)
Provenance
Reading Charles Taylor's Sources of the Self (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989), 165.
Citation
Only 1 entry in ECCO and ESTC (1731).
See Ralph Cudworth, A Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality (London: James and John Knapton, 1731). <Link to ECCO><Link to Google Books>
See Ralph Cudworth, A Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality (London: James and John Knapton, 1731). <Link to ECCO><Link to Google Books>
Theme
Self-Mastery
Date of Entry
07/07/2005
Date of Review
01/18/2012
