A Primer of PhilosophyJohn Murray, 1904 - 118 páginas |
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... doctrines to Pythagoras , who lived in the sixth century B. C. As far as we know of his life , he founded a kind of religion or brotherhood , and was a man of grand ethical and political efficiency . Neither Aristotle nor Plato speaks ...
... doctrines to Pythagoras , who lived in the sixth century B. C. As far as we know of his life , he founded a kind of religion or brotherhood , and was a man of grand ethical and political efficiency . Neither Aristotle nor Plato speaks ...
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... doctrines , a new tendency arose to separate Psychology from Philosophy , and establish it as a pure science on the same lines as Physiology , since it has nothing whatever to do with metaphysical problems . [ Psychology , treating of ...
... doctrines , a new tendency arose to separate Psychology from Philosophy , and establish it as a pure science on the same lines as Physiology , since it has nothing whatever to do with metaphysical problems . [ Psychology , treating of ...
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... doctrine of evolution , maintain that beauty in itself is nothing but what our sensations and senses make it . According to Plato , there is an absolute beauty in which all things participate . Aristotle , in his work on Poetry , has ...
... doctrine of evolution , maintain that beauty in itself is nothing but what our sensations and senses make it . According to Plato , there is an absolute beauty in which all things participate . Aristotle , in his work on Poetry , has ...
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... doctrines . Two schools , that of the Stoics and that of the Epicureans , need especial mention . The Stoic School was founded by Zeno of Citium , who taught in the Eroà Hokiλn ( Stoa Poikile ) , the Painted Porch or Hall , ' whence the ...
... doctrines . Two schools , that of the Stoics and that of the Epicureans , need especial mention . The Stoic School was founded by Zeno of Citium , who taught in the Eroà Hokiλn ( Stoa Poikile ) , the Painted Porch or Hall , ' whence the ...
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... doctrines could not stand against its sway . In the domain of Ethics , or morals , almost all the old pagan teachings were abandoned . " It was , " as Nietzsche said , " a complete revaluation of values . " 66 For Christianity , however ...
... doctrines could not stand against its sway . In the domain of Ethics , or morals , almost all the old pagan teachings were abandoned . " It was , " as Nietzsche said , " a complete revaluation of values . " 66 For Christianity , however ...
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Página 106 - Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas: How comes it to be furnished ? Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety ? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge ? To this I answer, in one word, From experience. In that all our knowledge is founded, and from that it ultimately derives itself.
Página 97 - The creed which accepts as the foundation ! of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.
Página 93 - Was war ein Gott, der nur von außen stieße, Im Kreis das All am Finger laufen ließe! Ihm ziemt's, die Welt im Innern zu bewegen, Natur in Sich, Sich in Natur zu hegen, So daß, was in Ihm lebt und webt und ist, Nie Seine Kraft, nie Seinen Geist vermißt.
Página 92 - ... suscipit Anchises atque ordine singula pandit. 'principio caelum ac terras camposque liquentes lucentemque globum Lunae Titaniaque astra Spiritus intus alit, .totamque infusa per artus mens agitat molem, et magno se corpore miscet.
Página 97 - Those who know anything about the matter are aware that every writer, from Epicurus to Bentham, who maintained the theory of utility, meant by it, not something to be contradistinguished from pleasure, but pleasure itself, together with exemption from pain ; and instead of opposing the useful to the agreeable or the ornamental, have always declared that the useful means these, among other things.
Página 64 - In the Middle Ages both sides of human consciousness — that which was turned within as that which was turned without — lay dreaming or half awake beneath a common veil. The veil was woven of faith, illusion, and childish prepossession, through which the world and history were seen clad in strange hues. Man was conscious of himself only as a member of a race, people, party, family, or corporation — only through some general category.
Página 106 - All those sublime thoughts which tower above the clouds, and reach as high as heaven itself, take their rise and footing here: in all that great extent wherein the mind wanders, in those remote speculations it may seem to be elevated with, it stirs not one jot beyond those ideas which SENSE or REFLECTION have offered for its contemplation.
Página 99 - The utilitarian morality does recognize in human beings the power of sacrificing their own greatest good for the good of others. It only refuses to admit that the sacrifice is itself a good. A sacrifice which does not increase or tend to increase the sum total of happiness, it considers as wasted.
Página 106 - Our observation employed either, about external sensible objects, or about the internal operations of our minds perceived and reflected on by ourselves, is that which supplies our understandings with all the MATERIALS of thinking. These two are the fountains of knowledge, from whence all the ideas we have, or can naturally have, do spring.
Página 74 - Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry each a future Ghost within him; but are, in very deed, Ghosts! These Limbs, whence had we them; this stormy Force; this life-blood with its burning Passion? They are dust and shadow; a Shadow-system gathered round our ME ; wherein, through some moments or years, the Divine Essence is to be revealed in the Flesh.