History of the Problems of Philosophy, Volume 2Macmillan, 1902 - Philosophy |
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... necessary condition . The greatest moral teachers amongst pre - Socratic philosophers were the Pythagoreans . It is difficult to determine precisely the connection between their practical and their speculative philo- sophy , but the ...
... necessary condition . The greatest moral teachers amongst pre - Socratic philosophers were the Pythagoreans . It is difficult to determine precisely the connection between their practical and their speculative philo- sophy , but the ...
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... necessary condition of virtue . Temperance is the contest waged by the rational soul against the passions . The idea of Justice is expressed by the stern law of retaliation , and to define it the Pythagoreans use an untranslatable term ...
... necessary condition of virtue . Temperance is the contest waged by the rational soul against the passions . The idea of Justice is expressed by the stern law of retaliation , and to define it the Pythagoreans use an untranslatable term ...
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... necessary to think correctly in order to act well that Socrates announced . What he meant was , that one cannot separate knowledge from action , because he who really knows the good understands also that it is his interest to do it ...
... necessary to think correctly in order to act well that Socrates announced . What he meant was , that one cannot separate knowledge from action , because he who really knows the good understands also that it is his interest to do it ...
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... necessary for its preservation , they should , on the other hand , be fought against as an obstacle to divine life , and , more especially , to the attainment of truth . In the highest and most philosophic sense , temperance is , for ...
... necessary for its preservation , they should , on the other hand , be fought against as an obstacle to divine life , and , more especially , to the attainment of truth . In the highest and most philosophic sense , temperance is , for ...
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... necessary , follows that of suffering as justified . Pain is not an evil ; the greatest of all evils , on the contrary , would be not to suffer the punishment our offences deserve ; and hence , far from fearing punishment , we should ...
... necessary , follows that of suffering as justified . Pain is not an evil ; the greatest of all evils , on the contrary , would be not to suffer the punishment our offences deserve ; and hence , far from fearing punishment , we should ...
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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.