The Meaning of Life: Insights of the World's Great ThinkersRodopi, 1994 - 282 páginas The book aims to present the wisdom of sages, great thinkers, renowned writers, and philosophers, of many countries and time periods, in their own words, regarding life. The book also aims to place the numerous quotations from these sources in a structured organization, with introductory and explanatory comments and comparisons. Main Topics or Fields - See Organization or Principal Parts. |
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... feel about the origin of life ( and especially of human life ) , the second of the deepest questions that puzzle us — in the domain of life and death - is , What distinguishes what is alive from what is not alive ? Aristotle displayed ...
... feel about the origin of life ( and especially of human life ) , the second of the deepest questions that puzzle us — in the domain of life and death - is , What distinguishes what is alive from what is not alive ? Aristotle displayed ...
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... . Do animals think , feel , decide , etc. ? 3. What are the actual relations , and what are the proper relations , between humans and animals ? 1. What Is It About Plants That Evokes in Humans What Is the Basic Nature of Plants Animals?
... . Do animals think , feel , decide , etc. ? 3. What are the actual relations , and what are the proper relations , between humans and animals ? 1. What Is It About Plants That Evokes in Humans What Is the Basic Nature of Plants Animals?
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... feel a measurable closeness and a kind of respect or hom- age , but also vis - à - vis wildflowers , forests , and ... feeling toward plants . In any case , the Biblical references to plants have served to strengthen such a feeling in ...
... feel a measurable closeness and a kind of respect or hom- age , but also vis - à - vis wildflowers , forests , and ... feeling toward plants . In any case , the Biblical references to plants have served to strengthen such a feeling in ...
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... Feel , Decide , Etc. ? We are now about to enter an arena where fierce debates occur on such questions as whether animals possess the attribute of consciousness and ( if so ) what kinds of consciousness they experience . Before entering ...
... Feel , Decide , Etc. ? We are now about to enter an arena where fierce debates occur on such questions as whether animals possess the attribute of consciousness and ( if so ) what kinds of consciousness they experience . Before entering ...
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... feel , decide , etc.?— namely , the aspect which concerns the intellectual or quasi - intellectual life of animals . This aspect includes such component questions as : a . Do animals have beliefs ? ( What is PLANTS AND ANIMALS 35.
... feel , decide , etc.?— namely , the aspect which concerns the intellectual or quasi - intellectual life of animals . This aspect includes such component questions as : a . Do animals have beliefs ? ( What is PLANTS AND ANIMALS 35.
Índice
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Part 2 | 71 |
Who Am I and What Am | 77 |
Is Will Defeated by Causality Fate | 109 |
Part 3 | 133 |
Is There Meaning in Our Lives? If | 153 |
How Do We March from Childhood to | 165 |
What Are the Basic Truths About Sex | 189 |
Civilization? | 219 |
How Should We Appraise Religious | 231 |
Source References | 249 |
Index of Authors and Anonymous | 279 |
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The Meaning of Life: Insights of the World's Great Thinkers William Gerber Vista previa restringida - 1994 |
Términos y frases comunes
Adler al-Ghazzali animals think answer Aquinas argument Aristotle asked aspect attributes basic behavior belief Bertrand Russell Blaise Pascal body Book brain called causality causes century chapter Charles Van Doren cited common era death declared doctrine Doren earth eat flesh edited editor eternal example existence expressed faith feel flowers freedom Genesis God's Greek happens hath human condition Ibid idea Immanuel Kant immortality Jewish John kind laws living things Lord Louis Untermeyer Lucretius marriage Martin Gardner meaning medieval mind moral namely nature negative offered Oliver Goldsmith passages person Peter Singer pets philosopher physical plants Plato Plotinus poem poet positive balance prayer Press Psalm question quoted reason reference regarding relation religion religious Roman sense Serpell sexual Sidney Hook Solomon ibn Gabirol soul specific T]he thee thinkers thou thought tion translated truth University verse William wisdom writers wrote York
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Página 204 - When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself, and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possessed, Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope...
Página 151 - Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act, or rest; In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer...
Página 48 - And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea ; into your hand are they delivered.
Página 184 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, which moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Página 228 - Earth has not anything to show more fair : Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers,, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
Página 183 - From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
Página 166 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Página 167 - And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been...
Página 34 - Gave thee life, and bid thee feed By the stream and o'er the mead; Gave thee clothing of delight, Softest clothing, woolly, bright; Gave thee such a tender voice, Making all the vales rejoice?
Página 35 - And what shoulder and what art Could twist the sinews of thy heart? And, when thy heart began to beat, What dread hand and what dread feet?