The Philosophy of the Conditioned

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  • In Henry Longueville Mansel

    …Mansel defended Hamilton’s views in The Philosophy of the Conditioned (1866). His contention, however, that the human mind could not attain to any positive conception of the nature of God or his goodness provoked considerable controversy, and Mansel, who meant to attack deism, rather than theism, was accused of agnosticism.…

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