Part II - Person and self in science
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 August 2010
Summary
One wou'd expect of these Physiologists and Searchers of Modes and Substances, that being so exalted in their Understandings, and inrich'd with Science above other Men, they shou'd be as much above 'em in their Passions and Sentiments. […] But if their pretended Knowledge of the Machine of this World, and of their own Frame, is able to produce nothing beneficial either to the one or to the other, I know not to what purpose such a Philosophy can serve, except to shut the door against better Knowledge, and introduce Impertinence and Conceit with the best Countenance of Authority.
Anthony Ashley Cooper ([1713] 1981, Part [Soliloquy] III, Section I: 211–12).- Type
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- Information
- Virtual Selves, Real PersonsA Dialogue across Disciplines, pp. 143 - 144Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009