History of Philosophy, for Use in High Schools, Academies, and Colleges

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American book Company, 1900 - 128 ページ
 

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72 ページ - For words are wise men's counters; they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools, that value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, or a Thomas, or any other doctor whatsoever, if but a man.
74 ページ - Thus he who has raised himself above the alms-basket, and, not content to live lazily on scraps of begged opinions, sets his own thoughts on work, to find and follow truth, will (whatever he lights on) not miss the hunter's satisfaction ; every moment of his pursuit will reward his pains with some delight, and he will have reason to think his time not ill spent, even when he cannot much boast of any great acquisition.
19 ページ - All men depart from the paths of truth and justice. They have no attachment of any kind but avarice ; they only aspire to a vain-glory with the obstinacy of folly. As for me, I know not malice ; I am the enemy of no one. I utterly despise the vanity of courts, and never will place my foot on Persian ground. Content with little, I live as I please.
63 ページ - BACON (SiR NICHOLAS), lord keeper of the great seal in the reign of queen Elizabeth, descended from an ancient and honourable family in Suffolk.
3 ページ - In this book there is given a simple and succinct account of the lives and doctrines of the great systematic philosophers, and of those ancient and mediaeval philosophers who have proposed some explanation of existence or some theory of conduct. The question at the back of the book, together with the vocabulary of philosophic terms, are a most important feature.
86 ページ - ... according to universal and necessary moral laws — and unites the practical with the speculative reason. The world must be represented as having originated from an idea, if it is to harmonize with that use of reason without which we cannot even consider ourselves as worthy of reason- namely, the moral use, which rests entirely on the idea of the supreme good.
103 ページ - Darwin his basic evolutionary principle of the survival of the fittest in the struggle for existence.
30 ページ - ... they serve to illustrate the logical consistency of his character. He inured himself to the vicissitudes of weather by living in a tub belonging to the temple of Cybele. The single wooden bowl he possessed he destroyed on seeing a peasant boy drink from the hollow of his hands. On a voyage to Aegina he was captured by pirates and sold as a slave in Crete to a Corinthian named Xeniades. Being asked his trade, he replied that he knew no trade but that of governing men, and that he wished to be...
97 ページ - Mathematics, ( 2 ) astronomy, ( 3 ) physics, (4) chemistry, (5) biology, (6) sociology (the most complex and specialized of all).
40 ページ - QUANTITY, QUALITY, RELATION, ACTION, PASSION, THE WHERE, THE WHEN, POSITION IN SPACE, POSSESSION, and SUBSTANCE.

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