The Ground and Goal of Human LifeNew York University Press, 1919 - 593 páginas |
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activity aesthetic aestheticism affirm altruism anti-social appears artistic assert assume attempt Baudelaire beauty becomes character conception consciousness culture Decadence Descartes desire dualism egoism elaboration enjoyment Enlightenment ethical eudaemonism eudaemonistic existence expressed exterior order fact fail feeling genuine happiness hedonism higher synthesis human humanistic idea ideal immoralism immoralistic indi individual individualist inner insists intellectual irrationalism irreligion Kant knowledge less life-ideal living logic man's mankind manner means metaphysical method mind modern monism moral moralist naturalistic nature negation Nietzsche nihilism nihilistic notion object outer perfect pessimism philosophy physical Plato pleasure positivism possible principle problem psychology question Raskolnikow rationalism rationalistic realization reason religion Romanticism Scholasticism scientific scientism seeks seems selfhood sense skepticism social order social thinking society solipsism sought soul soul-states spiritual Stendhal Stirner striving superior things thinker thought tion true truth unity utilitarian vidual volition whence worth Wotan
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Página 307 - Labour is, in the first place, a process in which both man and Nature participate, and in which man of his own accord starts, regulates, and controls the material re-actions between himself and Nature. He opposes himself to Nature as one of her own forces, setting in motion arms and legs, head and hands, the natural forces of his body, in order to appropriate Nature's productions in a form adapted to his own wants. By thus acting on the external world and changing it, he at the same time changes...
Página 400 - Regarding, then, Beauty as my province, my next question referred to the tone of its highest manifestation — and all experience has shown that this tone is one of sadness. Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. Melancholy is thus the most legitimate of all the poetical tones.
Página 221 - ... ie, from the moment when individual property can no .longer be transformed into bourgeois property, into capital, from that moment, you say, individuality vanishes. You must, therefore, confess that by "individual" you mean no other person than the bourgeois, than the middle-class owner of property.
Página 217 - The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of angels and God, and at liberty when of devils and hell, is because he was a true poet, and of the devil's party without knowing it.
Página 207 - ... the general happiness is desirable, except that each person, so far as he believes it to be attainable, desires his own happiness. This, however, being a fact, we have not only all the proof which the case admits of, but all which it is possible to require, that happiness is a good : that each person's happiness is a good to that person, and the general happiness, therefore, a good to the aggregate of all persons.
Página 185 - I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty. Its sole arbiter is taste. With the intellect or with the conscience, it has only collateral relations; unless, incidentally, it has no concern whatever either with duty or with truth.
Página 86 - That which is the subtle essence, in it all that exists has its self. It is the True. It is the Self, and thou, O Svetaketu, art it.
Página 191 - ... in any man sufficient faith in the power of rectitude, to inspire him with the broad design of renovating the State on the principle of right and love. All those who have pretended this design have been partial reformers, and have admitted in some manner the supremacy of the bad State. I do not call to mind a single human being who has steadily denied the authority of the laws, on the simple ground of his own moral nature.
Página 105 - Just as the Intellect concerns itself with Truth, so Taste informs us of the Beautiful, while the Moral Sense is regardful of Duty.
Página 294 - No one supposes that all the individuals of the same species are cast in the same actual mould. These individual differences are of the highest importance for us, for they are often inherited...