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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... ...ions in the Cratylus or the fallacies of the Euthydemus are a parody of some contemporary Sophist. The in 21 Parmenides terlocutor is not supposed, ... ... possible that the obscu rity of the Parmenides would not have existed to a contemporary student of philosophy , and, like the similar difficulty in ... ...d younger than itself but during an equal time with itself, and is therefore contemporary with itself. And what are the relations of the one to the ot...

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... of Hegel seemed to find in the Sophist the crown and summit of the Platonic philosophy—here is the place at which Plato most nearly approaches to the... ...on which they are intended to meet. The sophisms of the day were undermining philosophy; the denial of the existence of Not being, and of the connexio... ...fancy of Plato, now boast ful, now eristic, now clothing himself in rags of philosophy , now more akin to the rhetorician or lawyer , now haranguing,... ...r varies in different dialogues. Like my 8 Sophist – Plato thology , Greek philosophy has a tendency to per sonify ideas. And the Sophist is not m... ... additional association, if any , was only that of rhetorician or teacher . Philosophy had become eclecticism and imitation: in the decline of Greek ... ...g or examining. IV . The later dialogues of Plato contain many references to contemporary philosophy. Both in the Theaetetus and in the Sophist he rec...

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...Philolaus and in the Pythagorean table of opposites) in the same manner as contemporary Pythagoreans. There is little in the characters which is worth... ...ns of relation to external 5 Plato life in the dialogue, or references to contemporary things and persons, with the single exception of the allusions... ..., 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 ...

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...letter as well as in the spirit, by writing verses as well as bycultivating philosophy. Tell this to Evenus; and say that I would have him follow me ... .... He too has been a captive, and the willing agent of his own captivity. But philosophy has spoken to him, and he has heard her voice; she has gently ... ...ideas; of man, has a history in time, which may be traced in Greek poetry or philosophy, and also in the Hebrew Scriptures. They convert feeling into ... ... time, he will be forgotten and the world will get on without him. 4. Modern philosophy is perplexed at this whole question, which is sometimes fairly... ...to be inseparable, not only in fact, but in our conceptions of them; and any philosophy which too closely unites them, or too widely separates them, e... ...ifficulties of two kinds occur in the Phaedo—one kind to be explained out of contemporary philosophy, the other not admitting of an entire solution. (...

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...tempt made to interweave life and speculation, or to connect politics with philosophy. The Republic is the centre around which the other Dialogues may... ...public is the centre around which the other Dialogues may be grouped; here philosophy reaches the highest point to which ancient thinkers ever attaine... ...to. The 3 greatest of all logical truths, and the one of which writers on philosophy are most apt to lose sight, the difference be tween words and t... ...e included an ideal history of Athens, as well as a political and physical philosophy. The fragment of the Critias has given birth to a world famous f... ...some elements of Plato remain still unde tected in Aristotle. In English philosophy too, many affini ties may be traced, not only in the works of t... ... were preserved in later ages. The play on his name which was made by his contemporary Herodicus, “thou wast ever bold in battle,” seems to show that...

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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... ...y law. Nothing is more bitter in all his writings than his comparison of the contemporary politicians to lions, centaurs, satyrs, and other ani- mals ... ...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... ...e and worse in the ages which followed. He cannot contain his disgust at the contemporary statesmen, sophists who had turned politicians, in various f...

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...In modern philosophy of nature the World is unified and holistic. Cosmic Universe and Human History, microcosm and macrocosm, inorganic and living matter coexist and form a unique unity manifested in multiple forms. The Physical and th...

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...ising and life... Creative chaos... Is time ahead of the being? The pre – universe.... Chapter 8 The paths of knowledge - Ancient knowledge and contemporary physics | The universal nature of soul. Chapter 9 The metaphysical and the epistemological question.. Basic scientific assumptions......

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... my soul if you like. And if you don’t want to, don’t, damn you! That’s my philosophy. Ivan talked well here yesterday, though we were all drunk. Ivan... ...to say ‘sir.’ It’s the work of a higher power. I see you are interested in contemporary questions, but how can I have excited your curiosity, living a... ...itary existence there. He was a good scholar who had gained distinction in philosophy in the uni- versity. Something made him take a fancy to Markel, ...

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... my soul if you like. And if you don’t want to, don’t, damn you! That’s my philosophy. Ivan talked well here yesterday, though we were 159 Dostoevsky... ...to say ‘sir.’ It’s the work of a higher power. I see you are interested in contemporary questions, but how can I have excited your curiosity, living a... ...itary existence there. He was a good scholar who had gained distinction in philosophy in the uni- versity. Something made him take a fancy to Markel, ... ...rsevere.’ And I signed myself, ‘A Mother.’ I thought of signing myself ‘ A contemporary Mother,’ and hesitated, but I stuck to the simple ‘Mother’; th... ...er’; there’s more moral beauty in that, Dmitri Fyodorovitch. And the word ‘contemporary’ might have reminded him of The Contemporary—a pain- ful recol... ...e a pain in my forehead… and in the top of my head… only please don’t talk philosophy, as you did last time. If you can’t take yourself off, talk of s... ...ng fine. That’s a great pity, for I only give what I can—” “Don’t talk philosophy, you ass!” “Philosophy , indeed, when all my right side is n... ...ou are rubbish, you are my fancy!” “Well, if you like, I have the same philosophy as you, that would be true. Je pense, donc je suis,* I know that...

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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 leads up to progress, to hu- manity, to love, it’s all in relation to contemporary questions. We talk about the need of a free press, of the refo... ... 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 ... ...o. In the carriage Alexandr Petrovitch several times fell to criti- cizing contemporary literature again. He was quite at his ease with me, and calmly...

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...alzac, the founder, as some will have him, of modern French prose, and the contemporary and fellow-reformer of Malherbe. (In- deed, as the novelist po... ...to make the most of his labor, his projects, and his performance. Even his contemporary, though elder, Southey, the hardest-work- ing and the most scr... ...en to mistake what perhaps the greatest creation of Balzac’s great English contemporary and coun- 24 The Human Comedy: Introductions & Appendix terpa... ...dy: Introductions & Appendix terpart on the one side, as Thackeray was his contemporary and counterpart on the other, considered to be the malignity o... ... please the poet, the philosopher, and the masses who want both poetry and philosophy under strik- ing imagery? Though I could conceive of the importa... ...humanity stirs within their frame, which often covers a complete system of philosophy. Thus Walter Scott raised to the dignity of the philosophy of Hi... ... truths—Religion and Monarchy; two necessities, as they are shown to be by contemporary events, towards which every writer of sound sense ought to try...

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... yet, if we had the power to trace them to their springs, indications of a delicacy of the sense finer than we conceive, and hints of ancient harmo- *... ...the change from the successive shallow statements of the old chronicler to the dense and luminous flow of highly synthetic narrative, there is implied... ...kept simultaneously danc- ing in the air, that, consciously or not, afford the reader his delight. Nay, and this wit, so little recognised, is the nec... ...; and the speech and reading, taken together, form the efficient educational medium of youth. A good man or woman may keep a youth some little while i... ...ng us through the medium of books or papers, and even he who cannot read learning from the same source at second- hand and by the report of him who ca... ...es so now, how much more might it do so if the writers chose! There is not a life in all the records of the past but, properly studied, might lend a h... ... to invigorate his creed. Either he cries out upon blasphemy and indecency, and crouches the closer round that little idol of part-truths and part-con...

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...their professional rights; and if we may credit the indirect report of the contemporary literature, all apostolic or missionary zeal for the extension... ...dow of change among its members. This is what the New Testament, a code of philosophy fertile in new ideas, first introduced under the name of scandal... ...te the objections, and then as briefly reply to them, by exposing the true philosophy of Milton’s practice. For we are very sure that, in doing as he ... ...he antagonist pole to the sin and misery of social man. Such is the covert philosophy which governs Milton’s prac- tice, and which might be illustrate... ... 1832 1832 H ISTORY IS SOMETIMES treated under the splendid conception of ‘philosophy teaching by example,’ and sometimes as an ‘old almanac;’ and, ag... ...gns precurrent and concurrent of those days, and should also have read the contemporary political pamphlets, coming thus prepared, could not have fail... ...— this period of history can hardly be expected to receive much light from contemporary documents in an age so generally illiterate. Not from national... ...coming a century later, presume to dispute the fidelity or the value of my contemporary portraits?’ Yes, and upon these two grounds: first (as to the ... ...ds that must have been known for such by Pope not less than to most of his contemporary readers. Suppose them not known, and the whole must have wante...

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... large a part numerical and geometrical magic, numerical and geo- metrical philosophy have played in the history of the mind! And the whole apparatus ... ...being of infinite qualities; and all that region I rule out of court in my philosophy altogether. I will neither affirm nor deny if I can help it abou... ... T IS GOOD? It seems to me one of the heedless errors of those who deal in philosophy, to suppose all things that have simple names or unified effects... ...I go beyond the limits many Socialists in the past, and some who are still contemporary , have set them- selves. Much Socialism to-day seems to think ... ...no longer is he to intervene between her and the community. As a matter of contemporary fact he can do so and does so habitually, and most women have ... ...vidual but a group of individuals who find themselves in disagreement with contemporary rule or usage and disposed to find a rightness in things not e... ...had been struck by the apparently cha- otic and wasteful character of most contemporary reform movements, and it seemed reasonable to suppose that tho... ...g rather deduced as a possible outcome of certain forces and tendencies in contemporary life (A.D. 1900) than, as liter- ary people say, “created.” Th... ... a necessary corollary of the sys- tem of thought developed therein. In my philosophy, with its insistence upon uniqueness and marginal differences an...

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... that must presently de- 17 H G Wells velop sight, and form, and power, a philosophy in which this assumption is denied.* All through this Utopian ex... ... article Logic (Vol. XXX.). I have appended to his book a rude sketch of a philosophy upon new lines, originally read by me to the Oxford Phil. Soc. i... ...he measure of the general inaccessibility and insecurity and costliness of contemporary life, an awk- ward transitory phase in the first beginnings of... ...n 2 ection 2 Now if this Utopian world is to be in some degree parallel to contemporary thought, it must have been concerned, it may be still concerne... ...isure, in a good moral and intellectual atmosphere, come experiments, come philosophy and the new departures. In any modern Utopia there must be many ... ...ere peoples, of the prosperous classes more so than the peasant woman. The contemporary woman of fashion who sets the tone of occidental intercourse i... ...rtue of continence shows that he had jumped to just the same conclusions a contemporary London errand boy, hovering a little shamefacedly over Jowett ... ...re great journals of thought and speculation, mature and splendid books of philosophy and science, and a glorious fabric of literature will be woven a... ...g constituents, but on the whole the Whig strand now seems the weaker. The contemporary Liberal politician offers cogent criticism upon the brutality ...

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...matter of our personalities in space and time. Human analysis probing with philosophy and science towards the V eiled Being reveals nothing of God, re... ... Dark God of the Manichees, the evil spirit of the sun worshippers. But in contemporary thought there is no conviction apparent that this Demiurge is ... ...ousness, as the Collective Mind. I believe that this resistance in so many contemporary minds to the idea of God as a person is due very largely to th... ... in which, writing as one without authority or specialisation in logic and philosophy, as an ordinary man vividly interested, for others in a like cas... ...hanges. When he comes from his own world of modern biology to religion and philosophy he goes back in time. He attacks religion as he understood it wh... ..., after all the flat repudiations that have preceded it of “religion” and “philosophy” as remedies for human ills, is nothing less than the fundamenta... ...ate the modern outlook on life. Certainly modern culture—science, history, philosophy, and art—finds no purpose in life: that is to say, no purpose et... ...f the barrister. A practising bar- 78 God The Invisible King rister under contemporary conditions does indeed give most typically the opportunity for... ...gion, those questions of physical status that play so large a part in most contemporary religions, have disappeared from modern faith. Let us be as cl...

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...hed in French the first vindication of Russian revolution. Whilst studying philosophy in the Berlin University, T urgenev paid short visits to his unc... ...ce you don’t care for music? Literature?’ ‘I like literature, only not our contemporary literature.’ ‘Why?’ ‘I’ll tell you why. I crossed the Oka late... ...oes the groaning.’ Darya Mihailovna smiled. ‘And that is called expressing contemporary life,’ contin- ued Pigasov indefatigably, ‘profound sympathy w... ...d Rudin was thor- oughly imbued with German poetry, German romanticism and philosophy, and he drew her after him into these forbid- den lands. Unimagi... ... simplicity!’ ‘But tell me, my dear fellow,’ asked Volintsev, ‘what is it, philosophy or what?’ ‘How can I tell you? On one side it is philosophy, I d... ... something altogether different It is not right to put every folly down to philosophy.’ 87 Turgenev Volintsev looked at him. ‘Wasn’t he lying then, d... ...e was continually developing, Rudin arrived at the conclusion, by means of philosophy, that he ought to fall in love. He began to look about for a swe...

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...inter in Paris, bringing back with them its frivolous tone and short-lived contemporary crazes. Madame is a woman of fashion, though she looks rather ... ...dress for themselves or others. He saw the glimmerings of something like a philosophy in the even tenor of their per- petual round, in the calm of the... ...ust either die or take refuge in a material- istic, selfish, and heartless philosophy, from which impas- sioned souls shrink in horror. AS FOR MME. DE...

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...tand, but he seemed always to be waving his hand to- wards it,—just as his contemporary T ennyson seems always to be doing—he belonged to his age and ... ...o correct his harsh egotisms, broaden his outlook, give him a grasp of the contemporary developments he will presently be called upon to influence and... ...impossible to develop a new college system with strong faculties in modern philosophy, modern history, European literature and criticism, physical and... ...whom he waged a fierce obscure war… . It was Codger’s function to teach me philosophy, philoso- phy! the intimate wisdom of things. He dealt in a vari... ...lity to order, a constant escaping from control. The current of living and contemporary ideas in which my mind was presently swimming made all in the ... ... with a first and good tennis and a grow- ing social experience, is a fair contemporary for two girls of twenty-three and twenty-four. 125 H G Wells ... ...name upon the contents list of the Nineteenth Century, the Fortnightly and Contemporary chiefly as a half sympathetic but frequently very damaging cri... ...t isn’t a very curable difference,—once people have grown up. Theirs was a philosophy devoid of finesse. T emperamentally the Baileys were specialised... ... pupil. In the life of the individual it takes the role that the growth of philosophy, science, and creative literature may play in the development of...

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...a “ha’p’orth the worse.” And their creditors have found a balm in time and philosophy. Bankruptcy is only painful and destructive to small people and ... ...ialistic organisations anything better than a shabby little back-door into contemporary politics, those demonstrations would be hammering at the mind ... ... Press; by which I mean not simply the periodical Press, but all books and contemporary discussion. It is only by the natural playing off of Press aga... ...at never get from “exercises” to practice. There is a pretence of studying philosophy based on Greek texts that few of the teachers and none of the ta... ...German, or English literature and literary development up to and including contemporary work is, of course, an entirely different matter. But there ca... ...on. But the essence of the higher education is now, as it always has been, philosophy; not the antiquated pretence of “reading” Plato and Aristotle, b... ...ly, surely , and exactly . For that we want less debating society and more philosophy, fewer prizes for forensic ability and more for strength and vig... ...ttery that prevailed in the Victorian age, and which is so closely akin to contemporary German follies, fostered and cultivated this sweet delusion. T...