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...racter of Antiphon, the half brother of Plato, who had once been inclined to philosophy , but has now shown the hereditary disposition for horses, is ... ...ters have regarded the Parmenides as a ‘reductio ad absurdum’ of the Eleatic philosophy. But would Plato have been likely to place this in the mouth o... ...ich we must arrive is that the Parmenides is not a refutation of the Eleatic philosophy . Nor would such an explanation afford any satisfactory connex... ...stotle; they are the objections which naturally occur to a modern student of philosophy . Many persons will be surprised to find Plato criticizing the... ...) The full discussion of this subject involves a comprehensive survey of the philosophy of Plato, which would be out of place here. But, without digre... ... the birth place of Anaxagoras, a citizen of no mean city in the history of philosophy , who is the narrator of the dialogue, describes himself as me... ...ou ask?’ ‘Let me introduce to you some countrymen of mine, who are lovers of philosophy; they have heard that Antiphon remembers a conversation of Soc... ...ts have another direction: he takes after his grandfather , and has given up philosophy for horses.’ ‘ We went to look for him, and found him giv ing... ...what becomes of the mind? and where are the reasoning and reflecting powers? philosophy is at an end.’ ‘I certainly do not see my way .’ ‘I think,’ sa...

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...d, not with the original Sophist, but with the soph- istry of the schools of philosophy , which are mak- ing reasoning impossible; and is driven by th... ...onscious of the realities of human life. Yet the ideal glory of the Platonic philosophy is not 4 Statesman extinguished. He is still looking for a ci... ...er but with the animals, they had em- ployed these advantages with a view to philosophy , gathering from every nature some addition to their store of ... ...re was little or nothing in the space between them. Thus there is a basis of philosophy , on which the improb- abilities of the tale may be said to re... ...nform exactly to the same pattern. We do not find perfect consistency in his philosophy; and still less have we any right to demand this of him in his... ...cally termed by Glaucon in the Repub- lic, and the higher life of reason and philosophy. But as no one can determine the state of man in the world bef... ...im in the previous dialogues, but nowhere has the spirit of modern inductive philosophy been more hap- pily indicated than in the words of the Statesm... ...n, but with the brute creation, had used all these advantages with a view to philosophy , conversing with the brutes as well as with one another, and ...

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..., derived from a previous state of existence, is a note of progress in the philosophy of Plato. The transcendental theory of pre-existent ideas, which... ...he greater feebleness of age, or to the development of the quarrel between philosophy and po- etry in Plato’s own mind, or perhaps, in some degree, to... ...roken up into a number of indi- viduals, or be in and out of them at once. Philosophy had so deepened or intensified the nature of one or Being, by th... ... in the unity of the idea is regarded by Hegel as the supreme principle of philosophy; and the law of contradiction, which is affirmed by logicians to... ...unchangeableness which cannot be got rid of. 3. In the language of ancient philosophy, the relative character of pleasure is described as becoming or ... ...easures. But to us the distinction is unmeaning, and belongs to a stage of philosophy which has passed away. Plato him- self seems to have suspected t... ...described as eminent in physics. There is unfortunately no school of Greek philosophy known to us which combined these two 16 Philebus characteristic... ...ng Socrates the first utilitarian; as indeed there is no side or aspect of philosophy which may not with rea- son be ascribed to him—he is Cynic and C... ...nd), still, why should we make an ambiguous word the corner-stone of moral philosophy? To the higher thinker the Utilitar- ian or hedonist mode of sp...

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... though this is a fact which is not generally known); and the soul of their philosophy is brevity, which was also the style of primitive antiquity an... ...perfect piece of art. There are dramatic contrasts and interests, threads of philosophy broken and resumed, satirical reflec tions on mankind, veils ... ... described as the true philosophers, and Laconic brevity as the true form of philosophy, evidently with an allusion to Protagoras’ long speeches. (3) ... ...enus. Several lesser touches of satire may be observed, such as the claim of philosophy advanced for the Lacedaemonians, which is a parody of the clai... ...Hippias, who has previously exhibited his superfi cial knowledge of natural philosophy, to which, as in both the Dialogues called by his name, he now... ...s is already passing into the Platonic one. At a later stage of the Platonic philosophy we shall find that both the paradox and the solution of it app... ...nides. Now is the time to rehabilitate Simonides, by the application of your philosophy of synonyms, which enables you to dis tinguish ‘will’ and ‘wi... ...lain to you my opinion about this poem of Simonides. There is a very ancient philosophy which is more cultivated in Crete and Lacedaemon than in any o... ...ow that I am right in at tributing to the Lacedaemonians this excellence in philosophy and speculation: If a man converses with the most ordinary Lac...

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... 3 began to make enquiries about matters at home—about the present state of philosophy, and about the youth. I asked whether any of them were remarka...

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...ore his father. “What are you saying, Alyosha? I suppose it’s some sort of philosophy ,” she said. “Someone’ s been lecturing you … Y ou’ d much bette... ... that philosopher who poisoned himself that has put me on that track. Damn philosophy! Buvons, mon cher. We be- gan talking about pretty girls… Where ...

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...s celestial Goodness; and this knot Perplex’d unravel.” He thus made reply: “Philosophy, to an attentive ear, Clearly points out, not in one part alon... ... v. 62. Guido thy son Had in contempt.]Guido Cavalcanti, being more given to philosophy than poetry, was perhaps no great admirer of Virgil. Some poet... ...o of Sienna, who is said to have been a fellow student of Dante’s in natural philosophy. CANTO XXX. v. 4. Athamas.] From Ovid, Metam. 1. iv. ... ...nd dancing. But he was luxurious and ambitious. Void of religion, and in his philosophy an Epicurean. See G. Villani l. vi. c. xlvii. and Mr. Matthias... ...tes Ignus habere solet. Palingenii Zodiacus Vitae, 1. xii. v. 26. A dame.] Philosophy. v. 49. Who mourn.] Matt. c. v. 4. v. 72. My soul.] Psalm... ...dered this an anticipation of a profound discovery of Galileo’s in natural philosophy, but it is in reality taken from a passage in Cicero “ de Sen... ... more narrowly thy terms, And say, who level’d at this scope thy bow.” “Philosophy,” said I, ‘’hath arguments, And this place hath authority enou... ...r, To whom more guilt and shame are justly due. Each the known track of sage philosophy Deserts, and has a byway of his own: So much the restless eage...

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...The Republic is a Socratic dialogue by Plato, written in approximately 380 BC. It is one of the most influential works of philosophy and political theory, and arguably Plato's best known work. In it, Socrates and various other Athenians and foreigners discuss the meaning of justice and whether the just man is happier than the unjust man by const...

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...Mexique were with me, good. “M’en fou pas mal,” pretty nearly summed up my philosophy. At least the Surveillant let me alone on the Soi-Même topic. Af...

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...he country. Education is not a thing apart from life—not a “system,” nor a philosophy; it is direct teaching how to live and how to work. To say that ...

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..., when he observed that the first principles of all sciences belong to the philosophy of the human mind. The observation is just; and the first princi... ...branches of knowledge. If we open any book, even of mathematics or natural philosophy, it is impossible not to be struck with the mistiness of what we... ... of being founded upon it. The science of mechanics, a branch of natu- ral philosophy, lays down the laws of motion, and the prop- erties of what are ... ...dge of the properties of the subject-matter: without this, it would not be philosophy, but empiricism; [Greek: empeiria,] not [Greek: technae,] in Pla... ..., as mere instruments or means), form a part of the subject of pure mental philosophy. They comprise all the laws of the mere intellect, and those of ... ...e parts of his nature—form the subject of an- other portion of pure mental philosophy, namely, that por- tion of it on which morals, or ethics, are fo... ... those simple laws take effect in compli- cated circumstances. Pure mental philosophy, therefore, is an essential part, or preliminary, of political p... ... seldom in our power to make experiments in them. In chemistry and natural philosophy, we can not only observe what happens under all the combi- natio... ...combines this experience with a profound knowledge of ab- stract political philosophy. Either acquirement, without the other, leaves him lame and impo...

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...e eighteenth century metaphysics, M. Gergonne, on logic, under the name of Philosophy of the Sciences. I also went through a course of the higher math... ...ollection of having once seen Saint Simon, not yet the founder either of a philosophy or a religion, and considered only as a clever original. The chi... ...ty to my conceptions of things. I now had opinions; a creed, a doctrine, a philosophy; in one among the best senses of the word, a religion; the incul... ...my father made me study what he deemed the really master production in the philosophy of mind, Hartley’s Observations on Man . This book, though it d... ...y portion, as it advanced. The other principal English writers on men tal philosophy I read as I felt inclined, particularly Berkeley, Hume’s Essays... ...were then thought ex 45 John Stuart Mill treme opinions, in politics and philosophy, were weekly as serted, face to face with their opposites, befo... ..., and a certain number of the prin cipal corollaries drawn from it in the philosophy I had ac cepted—and meeting once a fortnight to read essays and... ...that the Review was bought and read, made the so called Bentham school in philosophy and politics fill a greater place in the public mind than it had... ...n for the lives and characters of heroic persons; especially the heroes of philosophy. The same inspiring ef fect which so many of the benefactors of...

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...een modified in the course of historical development. But religion, morality philosophy, political science, and law, constantly sur vived this change...

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...i: Sola contemnunt Phlegethonta, et Orci Jura superbi.” That his philosophy was empirical, is proved by his “Essay on Man,” which, notwithst... ... humankind: Our knight (who studied much, we may suppose) Derived his high philosophy from those; For, like a prince, he bore the vast expense Of lavi... ...nce lifts its modern type, History her pot, divinity her pipe, While proud philosophy repines to show, Dishonest sight! his breeches rent below; Embro... ...rnal jingle in their ear! VER. 197. In the first edition it was— And proud philosophy with breeches tore, And English music with a dismal score: Fast ... ...h to her old cavern fled, 451 Mountains of casuistry heap’d o’er her head! Philosophy, that lean’d on heaven before, Shrinks to her second cause, and ... ...tchman in the land of Nod. VER. 643. In the former edition, it stood thus— Philosophy, that reach’d the heavens before, Shrinks to her hidden cause, a... ...s ap- pears from Virgil, Eclog. vi., where he sings the principles of that philosophy in his drink. He is meant for one Thomas Gordon.—P . W . 437 ‘F... ...narrow the understanding, and estab- lish slavery and error in literature, philosophy, and politics. The whole finished in modern free-thinking; the c...

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... the order of ideas in the minds of those who adopt this view of political philosophy. They look upon a constitution in the same light (difference of ... ...an be required to promote. But, thus understood, it affords no basis for a philosophy of gov ernment. We can not say that, in constituting a polity, ... ... science at large. For our more limited purpose we borrow from po litical philosophy only its general principles. To determine the form of government... ...nce of the class itself. If checks of this description are sufficient, the philosophy of constitu tional government is but solemn trifling. All trust...