Chapters from Aristotle's EthicsJ. Murray, 1900 - 319 páginas |
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Página 92
... direction in which we are to look for its concrete embodiment . It is just from the point of view of this question that the full bearing of the last addition , viz . " as the prudent man would determine it , " becomes apparent . It ...
... direction in which we are to look for its concrete embodiment . It is just from the point of view of this question that the full bearing of the last addition , viz . " as the prudent man would determine it , " becomes apparent . It ...
Página 98
... direction ; on the other hand , to inhibit the flow in a contrary direction . Sometimes one of these is prominent in the habit , sometimes the other . We need not stop to illustrate so familiar a point . We can all recognize in ...
... direction ; on the other hand , to inhibit the flow in a contrary direction . Sometimes one of these is prominent in the habit , sometimes the other . We need not stop to illustrate so familiar a point . We can all recognize in ...
Página 99
... direction has its counterpart in the mind's imperviousness to contrary suggestions . But this is only one side of the student's habit . If this were all , his mental condition might be com- pared to a ship whose decks are cleared for ...
... direction has its counterpart in the mind's imperviousness to contrary suggestions . But this is only one side of the student's habit . If this were all , his mental condition might be com- pared to a ship whose decks are cleared for ...
Página 101
... direction . The suggestions of Ismene in the contrary direction are to her meaningless . Her whole force is thus available for the act itself , the adjustment of her conduct to a situation which is new to the world- the rival claims of ...
... direction . The suggestions of Ismene in the contrary direction are to her meaningless . Her whole force is thus available for the act itself , the adjustment of her conduct to a situation which is new to the world- the rival claims of ...
Página 151
... directions how they are to conduct themselves as he gives directions for the conduct of a religious festival . But just as in the latter case the directions are issued , not for the guidance of the gods , but with the view of providing ...
... directions how they are to conduct themselves as he gives directions for the conduct of a religious festival . But just as in the latter case the directions are issued , not for the guidance of the gods , but with the view of providing ...
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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.