History of the Problems of Philosophy, Volume 2Macmillan, 1902 - Philosophy |
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... animal nature , he ascends to God . The entrance into immortality is the glorious goal of his moral life . From action to contemplation there is no abrupt transition , but a gradual ascent , a continuous aspiration . And so without ...
... animal nature , he ascends to God . The entrance into immortality is the glorious goal of his moral life . From action to contemplation there is no abrupt transition , but a gradual ascent , a continuous aspiration . And so without ...
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... animals , from the moment of their birth , seek pleasure and avoid pain . This , then , is the first principle of Epicurean ethics : Avoid pain ; seek pleasure . The next question is , What is pleasure ? We have to distinguish two kinds ...
... animals , from the moment of their birth , seek pleasure and avoid pain . This , then , is the first principle of Epicurean ethics : Avoid pain ; seek pleasure . The next question is , What is pleasure ? We have to distinguish two kinds ...
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... animals share them , but the wise man has no difficulty in freeing himself from them . Marriage and paternity bring so many cares that it is more prudent to avoid them . Lastly , natural appetites , when they become depraved , give rise ...
... animals share them , but the wise man has no difficulty in freeing himself from them . Marriage and paternity bring so many cares that it is more prudent to avoid them . Lastly , natural appetites , when they become depraved , give rise ...
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... animals , plants , and organic bodies , severally form a whole . composed of material parts , and bound together by a force ( σύστασις , constitutio ) . The acts by means of which a being maintains its con- stitution are its functions ...
... animals , plants , and organic bodies , severally form a whole . composed of material parts , and bound together by a force ( σύστασις , constitutio ) . The acts by means of which a being maintains its con- stitution are its functions ...
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... animals , already admits of regularity and order , but the performance of functions which is its law is spontaneous and instinctive . It What then does this life according to nature need in order to have moral value ? That it be ruled ...
... animals , already admits of regularity and order , but the performance of functions which is its law is spontaneous and instinctive . It What then does this life according to nature need in order to have moral value ? That it be ruled ...
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Page 48 - Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge ; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
Page 47 - Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
Page 131 - Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone which renders our experience useful to us, and makes us expect, for the future, a similar train of events with those which have appeared in the past.
Page 131 - This belief is the necessary result of placing the mind in such circumstances. It is an operation of the soul, when we are so situated, as unavoidable as to feel the passion of love, when we receive benefits; or hatred, when we meet with injuries. All these operations are a species of natural instincts, which no reasoning or process of the thought and understanding is able either to produce or to prevent.
Page 131 - An idea assented to feels different from a fictitious idea, that the fancy alone presents to us: And this different feeling I endeavour to explain by calling it a superior force, or vivacity, or solidity, or firmness, or steadiness.
Page 254 - But what if man had eyes to see the true beauty - the divine beauty, I mean, pure and clear and unalloyed, not clogged with the pollutions of mortality and all the colours and vanities of human life - thither looking, and holding converse with the true beauty simple and divine?
Page 232 - Nature also teaches me by these sensations of pain, hunger, thirst, etc., that I am not only lodged in my body as a pilot in a vessel, but that I am very closely united to it, and so to speak so intermingled with it that I seem to compose with it one whole.
Page 204 - We have the ideas of matter and thinking, but possibly shall never be able to know, whether any mere material being thinks, or no...
Page 203 - Self is that conscious thinking thing, whatever substance made up of (whether spiritual or material, simple or compounded, it matters not), which is sensible or conscious of pleasure and pain, capable of happiness or misery, and so is concerned for itself, as far as that consciousness extends.
Page 86 - I must again repeat what the assailants of utilitarianism seldom have the justice to acknowledge, that the happiness which forms the utilitarian standard of what is right in conduct is not the agent's own happiness but that of all concerned. As between his own happiness and that of others, utilitarianism requires him to be as strictly impartial as a disinterested and benevolent spectator.