Sense "must therefore remain a stranger to the objects and causes affecting it"

— Price, Richard (1723-1791)


Date
1758
Metaphor
Sense "must therefore remain a stranger to the objects and causes affecting it"
Metaphor in Context
Sense consists in the obtruding of certain impressions upon us, independently of our wills; but it cannot perceive what they are, or whence they are derived. It lies prostrate under its object, and is only a capacity in the soul of having its own state altered by the influence of particular causes. It must therefore remain a stranger to the objects and causes affecting it.
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Provenance
Searching "soul" and "stranger" in Past Masters
Citation
British Moralists. Ed. D. D. Raphael. Vol II. Hume-Bentham. Oxford: OUP, 1969.
Date of Entry
03/05/2006

The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.