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... sense of the word . He was not engaged to any extent in earning his livelihood by trade or profession . It is true that he spent part of his time in the management of his own private affairs . But this consisted to a large extent in the ...
... sense of the word . He was not engaged to any extent in earning his livelihood by trade or profession . It is true that he spent part of his time in the management of his own private affairs . But this consisted to a large extent in the ...
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... sense the cardinal virtues or capacities of the Greek citizen - his courage , his self - command , his liberality - are a mean , we come to the relation of the virtuous life to the highest form of good living open to man , viz . the ...
... sense the cardinal virtues or capacities of the Greek citizen - his courage , his self - command , his liberality - are a mean , we come to the relation of the virtuous life to the highest form of good living open to man , viz . the ...
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... sense here assumed , starts from the opposite assumption by emphatically denying it . At the beginning of the chapters in his great treatise which are devoted to the principles of morals , or as he calls them " manners , " Hobbes , the ...
... sense here assumed , starts from the opposite assumption by emphatically denying it . At the beginning of the chapters in his great treatise which are devoted to the principles of morals , or as he calls them " manners , " Hobbes , the ...
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... sense , it does not follow that it has no practical bearing on life . As theory it serves the same function with ... sense of its reality . Whether such theoretic understanding of the meaning of right conduct is necessary in order that ...
... sense , it does not follow that it has no practical bearing on life . As theory it serves the same function with ... sense of its reality . Whether such theoretic understanding of the meaning of right conduct is necessary in order that ...
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... sense in which , as Socrates held , virtue is knowledge ; whether again philosophy in the strict sense is the only way in which such knowledge is acquired are questions that will meet us hereafter . It is sufficient here to have pointed ...
... sense in which , as Socrates held , virtue is knowledge ; whether again philosophy in the strict sense is the only way in which such knowledge is acquired are questions that will meet us hereafter . It is sufficient here to have pointed ...
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Página 57 - Spite of this flesh to-day I strove, made head, gained ground upon the whole!" As the bird wings and sings, Let us cry, "All good things Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul!
Página 49 - It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log, at last, dry, bald, and sere: A lily of a day, Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall, and die that night; It was the plant, and flower of light. In small proportions, we just beauties see: And in short measures, life may perfect be.
Página 309 - Hence it is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal. And he who by nature and not by mere accident is without a state, is either a bad man or above humanity; he is like the 'Tribeless, lawless, hearthless one...
Página 13 - So that in the first place I put for a general inclination of all mankind a perpetual and restless desire of power after power that ceaseth only in death.
Página 193 - It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied ; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question. The other party to the comparison knows both sides.
Página 193 - Few human creatures would consent to be changed into any of the lower animals for a promise of the fullest allowance of a beast's pleasures ; no intelligent human being would consent to be a fool, no instructed person would be an ignoramus, no person of feeling and conscience would be selfish and base, even though they should be persuaded that the fool, or the dunce, or the rascal is better satisfied with his lot than they are with theirs.
Página 44 - Man's Unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.
Página 314 - ... through them. With a like view they may be taught drawing, not to prevent their making mistakes in their own purchases, or in order that they may not be imposed upon in the buying or selling of articles, but rather because it makes them judges of the beauty of the human form. To be always seeking after the useful does not become free and exalted souls.
Página 310 - In its horror of sensuality, it made an idol of asceticism, which has been gradually compromised away into one of legality. It holds out the hope of heaven and the threat of hell, as the appointed and appropriate motives to a virtuous life: in this falling far below the best of the ancients, and doing what lies in it to give to human morality an essentially selfish character, by disconnecting each man's feelings of duty from the interests of his fellow-creatures, except so far as a self-interested...
Página 13 - Philosophers. Nor can a man any more live, whose Desires are at an end, than he, whose Senses and Imaginations are at a stand. Felicity is a continual progress of the desire, from one object to another; the attaining of the former, being still but the way to the latter.