Chapters from Aristotle's EthicsJ. Murray, 1900 - 319 páginas |
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... truth , more than human , Aristotle may appear to have over- shot the mark and drawn too deep a line between week - day and sabbath . Whatever explanation we may be able to give of this dualism in so great a thinker , what has been said ...
... truth , more than human , Aristotle may appear to have over- shot the mark and drawn too deep a line between week - day and sabbath . Whatever explanation we may be able to give of this dualism in so great a thinker , what has been said ...
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... truth that no action is truly good but that which is done for its own sake , or as he puts it , " because it is a fine thing , " Aristotle frees ethics from the difficulty and confusion thus imported into it . Upon this head his ...
... truth that no action is truly good but that which is done for its own sake , or as he puts it , " because it is a fine thing , " Aristotle frees ethics from the difficulty and confusion thus imported into it . Upon this head his ...
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... truth ( cc . iv . , v . , vii . ) , † he works inward to the definition which he seeks ( c . vii . § 9 foll . ) . From this he returns to current opinions ( c . viii . ) , with the view of confirming his own account by showing that it ...
... truth ( cc . iv . , v . , vii . ) , † he works inward to the definition which he seeks ( c . vii . § 9 foll . ) . From this he returns to current opinions ( c . viii . ) , with the view of confirming his own account by showing that it ...
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... truth , " Show me a man whose actions are habitually wrong , * Not “ to judge , as we reasonably may , from their lives , ” as in Peters ' translation . and I can show you one who is likely to 32 CHAPTERS FROM ARISTOTLE'S ETHICS . CHAP ...
... truth , " Show me a man whose actions are habitually wrong , * Not “ to judge , as we reasonably may , from their lives , ” as in Peters ' translation . and I can show you one who is likely to 32 CHAPTERS FROM ARISTOTLE'S ETHICS . CHAP ...
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... truth . It is thus the antithesis of a theory with which we have recently been made familiar in some popular works , viz . that moral beliefs are the result of habits and traditions that have grown up independently of the operation of ...
... truth . It is thus the antithesis of a theory with which we have recently been made familiar in some popular works , viz . that moral beliefs are the result of habits and traditions that have grown up independently of the operation of ...
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Página 55 - 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 307 - 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 11 - 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 47 - 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 42 - 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 41 - Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work; a life-purpose; he has found it, and will follow it...
Página 308 - 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 11 - 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.