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... Chapters from Aristotle's Ethics - Página 13por John Henry Muirhead - 1900 - 319 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1870 - 494 páginas
...which particular ability is usually named fitness or aptitude." (11) Of the difference of manners. " Felicity is a continual progress of the desire, from...the former being still but the way to the latter." " So that, in the first place, I put for a general inclination of all mankind a perpetual and restless... | |
| George Croom Robertson - 1886 - 264 páginas
...that " the felicity of !this life consisteth not in the repose of a mind satisfied " but rather in " a continual progress of the desire from one object...the former being still but the way to the latter." And once at least he can forget egoistic feeling so far as to say that " that which gives to human... | |
| Henry Sidgwick - 1886 - 316 páginas
...happiness or felicity ; which he declares not to consist " in the repose of a mind satisfied," but in a " continual progress of the desire from one object...the former being still but the way to the latter." M glory." No doubt men naturally require mutual help : " infants have need of others to help them to... | |
| Henry Sidgwick - 1886 - 310 páginas
...happiness or felicity ; which he declares not to consist " in the repose of a mind satisfied," but in a "continual progress of the desire from one object...the former being still but the way to the latter." M glory." No doubt men naturally require mutual help : " infants have need of others to help them to... | |
| James Fitzjames Stephen - 1892 - 444 páginas
...man any more live whose desires are at an end than he whose senses and imagination are at a stand. Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another.' The universal desire of power is only a name for this continual striving. Neither his critics nor Hobbes... | |
| William Archibald Dunning - 1905 - 480 páginas
..." can never be without desire nor without fear, no more than without sense." Happiness, therefore, is " a continual progress of the desire from . one...former being still but the way to the latter." ' The means for the attainment of these never failing objects of desire are what Hobbes calls "power," and... | |
| David Graham - 1919 - 184 páginas
...a man any more live whose desires are at an end than he whose sense and imagination are at a stand. Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another. . . . The object of man's desire is not to enjoy once only, and for one instant of time, but to assure for ever... | |
| William Forbes Cooley - 1925 - 240 páginas
...it that is to enthrone an insatiable craving. As Hobbes said long ago, "Felicity [in this direction] is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attainment of the former being still but the way to the latter, ... a perpetual and restless desire... | |
| Fossey John Cobb Hearnshaw - 1926 - 232 páginas
...never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense." " Felicity is a continuall progress of the desire from one object to another,...the former being still but the way to the latter." Of mankind in general Hobbes is therefore led to conclude : " In the first place, I put for a generall... | |
| Fossey John Cobb Hearnshaw - 1926 - 242 páginas
...nor without Feare, no more than I without Sense." " Felicity is a continuall progress of the de^ sire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter." Of mankind in general Hobbes is therefore led to conclude : "In the first place, I put for a generall... | |
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