The book The Philosophy of Humanism And of Other Subjects was written by author R B Haldane Richard Burdon Haldane Haldane Here you can read free online of The Philosophy of Humanism And of Other Subjects book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Philosophy of Humanism And of Other Subjects a good or bad book?
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It is their fulfilment of an organic unity, their contri- bution to the maintenance of the normal life of the organism, that makes inappropriate as an explanation the otherwise indefinable and inexhaustible com- plexity of what we are confronted with in the en- deavour after interpretation as physical and chemical reactions. It is only their clinging to an a priori metaphysical view, held most often unconsciously, that makes so many try to render the phenomena of life into physical and chemical... conceptions ; a meta- physical view really no better than that at another extreme held by the interpreters in a different sense 21 BIOLOGY of the phenomena of the liquefaction of the blood of some long-deceased saint. Perception involves acti- vity of reflection in the selection of what is perceived and the abstractions which are made in the different forms of knowledge. The standpoints overlap, and it is by collecting the results arising from the em- ployment of their respective conceptions that we constitute and arrange the various sciences.
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