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Page xvi
... natural inclination is rather to a life of public activity than of study , for knowledge is defective and incomplete unless it be made to serve some useful end " . The aim of all Philosophy is with him to ascertain the right method of ...
... natural inclination is rather to a life of public activity than of study , for knowledge is defective and incomplete unless it be made to serve some useful end " . The aim of all Philosophy is with him to ascertain the right method of ...
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... nature we must , he says , rest satisfied with this , except where in par- ticular questions , such as that ... natural feeling of what is right and on the other hand the evidence of our senses make it possible to distinguish the True ...
... nature we must , he says , rest satisfied with this , except where in par- ticular questions , such as that ... natural feeling of what is right and on the other hand the evidence of our senses make it possible to distinguish the True ...
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... natural and do not attempt to eradicate such weaknesses 33 . In ethics also he was influenced more or less by Antiochus , as the books de finibus shew . But on the whole he decided in favour of the Stoics , as far as ethics were ...
... natural and do not attempt to eradicate such weaknesses 33 . In ethics also he was influenced more or less by Antiochus , as the books de finibus shew . But on the whole he decided in favour of the Stoics , as far as ethics were ...
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... natural feeling , by which he is guided more than by philosophic conviction . The refined Roman has a great horror of all cynical rudeness , from which the Stoics are not wholly exempt36 . The notion also that the wise man may be happy ...
... natural feeling , by which he is guided more than by philosophic conviction . The refined Roman has a great horror of all cynical rudeness , from which the Stoics are not wholly exempt36 . The notion also that the wise man may be happy ...
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... nature , πρшта κата þúσш , principia naturalia , prima naturae ( de finn . III § 21 ) . These are in part common to man with animals , in- asmuch as man's nature is in part the same as that of animals . Had the Stoics stopped with the ...
... nature , πρшта κата þúσш , principia naturalia , prima naturae ( de finn . III § 21 ) . These are in part common to man with animals , in- asmuch as man's nature is in part the same as that of animals . Had the Stoics stopped with the ...
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