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George Holmes Howison (29 November 1834 β 31 December 1916) was an American philosopher, who established the philosophy department at the University of California, Berkeley and held the position there of Mills Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy and Civil Polity.He also founded the Philosophical Union, one of the oldest philosophical organizations in the United States.
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βArithmetic is the science of the Evaluation of Functions, Algebra is the science of the Transformation of Functions.β
ββThroughout Nature, as distinguished from idealising mind, there reigns, in fine, no causation but transmission.ββ
ββConcomitance simply means, at last, that both series of changes are connected with some cause, distinct from either, which is the secret of both.ββ
βMathematics is the science of the functional laws and transformations which enable us to convert figured extension and rated motion into number.βHowison, G. H.β
ββThe professed Philosophy of Evolution is not an adult philosophy, but rather a philosophy that in the course of growth has suffered an arrest of development.ββ
βMathematics is that form of intelligence in which we bring the objects of the phenomenal world under the control of the conception of quantity. [Provisional definition.]β
ββEspecially must we find a substitute for creation by fiat, or efficient causation. For no being that arises out of efficient causation can possibly be freeββ
ββBy their very ideality they conclusively refer themselves to our spontaneous life: nothing ideal can be derived from experience, just as nothing experimental is ever ideal.ββ
ββBy the path into which Lange has led us we therefore ascend from the agnostic-critical standpoint to the higher and invigorating one of a thorough, all-sided, and affirmative idealism.ββ
ββWe return, then, to the strict concomitance of the two series, as all that can in exact science be meant by the functional relation between the brain and the sense-perceptive consciousness.ββ
ββUnder the suffocating burden of the old things that should have passed away, the Christian consciousness forgets, at least in part, that all things are become new, and that man is risen from the dead.ββ
ββTherefore, precisely by the investigation through which Lange has led us, we are now in the position to assure ourselves of the reality, the absoluteness in quality, of our human intelligence.ββ
ββThe evil in the world is the product of the non-divine minds themselves: the natural evil, of their very nature; the moral, the only real evil, of their failure to answer to their reason with their will.ββ
ββTo him, the one Absolute Conscience, in every moral disaster our conscience turns for assured refuge and certain renewal of moral courage and strength. That is the real act and infallible function of Prayer.ββ
ββFor it is assured of immortality β an immortality that some day, be the time here or be it in the hereafter, must attain to life eternal, to the established dominance of the spiritual over the natural.ββ
ββA pantheistic edict of science would only proclaim a deadlock in the system and substance of truth itself, and herald an implacable conflict between the law of Nature and the law written indelibly in the human spirit.ββ
ββTo present universal Nature as the deep in which each soul with its moral hopes is to be engulfed, is to transform existence into a system of radical and irremediable evil, and thus to make genuine religion impossible;ββ
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George Holmes Howison on Arithmetic
βArithmetic is the science of the Evaluation of Functions, Algebra is the science of the Transformation of Functions.β
George Holmes Howison on History of algebra
βArithmetic is the science of the Evaluation of Functions, Algebra is the science of the Transformation of Functions.β
George Holmes Howison on Son of God
βββββHis [Christβs] point of view, of the literal divine-son ship of every lowliest and most sinful and sinning spirit, committed him logically to the assertion of the implicit equality of all spirits with each other, far as concerns their moral powers and destination no matter what their actual and contingent state; and also of their potential equality with God. His doctrine may well be summarised in the consecrated phrase, usually applied only to himself, "The son of man is the son of God."β ββββ
George Holmes Howison on Divine freedom
ββIt may take either of two forms, according as the sinking into sense directly involves only the violation of the spirit's own self-reverence or the graver assault upon the sacredness of others. In either case it is dishonour of God. The risk of it lies in the nature of our being, goes back to the conditions of our existence, of our self-definition in freedom; is constituent in our freedom as this is defined against the freedom of God. This risk is therefore "original" in a sense even deeper than that in which traditional theology makes sin to be original,ββ
About George Holmes Howison
George Holmes Howison (29 November 1834 β 31 December 1916) was an American philosopher, who established the philosophy department at the University of California, Berkeley and held the position there of Mills Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy and Civil Polity.He also founded the Philosophical Union, one of the oldest philosophical organizations in the United States.