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First Principles

Herbert Spencer

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. . .of which all thought is woven, yet he is little forwarder; for he can give no account either of sensations themselves or of that something which is conscious of sensations. Objective and subjective things he thus ascertains to be alike inscrutable in 67their substance and genesis. In all directions his investigations eventually bring him face to face with an insoluble enigma; and he ever more clearly perceives it to be an insoluble enigma. He learns at once the greatness and the littleness of the human intellect—its power in dealing with all that comes within the range of experience; its impotence in dealing with all that transcends experience. He realizes with a special vividness the utter incomprehensibleness of the simplest fact, considered in itself. He, more than any other, truly knows that in its ultimate essence nothing can be known.

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THE RELATIVITY OF ALL KNOWLEDGE.

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Community Reviews

This is one book I have read that demonstrates Spencer's wonderful contstructive reasoning in Philosophy. It may be a little tasking for an average but it sure has expanded my mind.

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Reading this somewhat obsolete book, I have nevertheless come to a far-reaching conclusion that I feel could be shocking to some, including Spencer himself. Judging from the past 160 years of scientific progress, it seems that humanity has passed from a position where man first gave a tentative voic

May have been revolutionary for its time, but this is probably the most dated book I have ever read. Interesting nevertheless.

Spencer’s prose is long and dense. His ideas are complex and they are difficult to understand and summarize. This is not an easy book to read, but there are three reasons to appreciate it. First, Spencer’s intent is to ground philosophy in science. Second, in an era when knowledge is increasingly sp

First Principles is Herbert Spencer's huge prospectus to the rest of his work, the synthetic philosophy. Spencer divides truth into the Unknowable and Knowable. Whether god(s) exists or not, whether the universe is eternal or was created is unknowable. We can't conceive of self-creation, eternity, o

This was an outstanding read. There were a few points that science has developed better theories on, but his discussions of the Unknowable Power, the flux of matter, and the indestructabilities of force and matter were mind bending. Highly recommended.