Lectures on Greek Philosophy and Other Philosophical Remains of James Frederick Ferrier...W. Blackwood and sons, 1866 |
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absolute truth according Anaxagoras Anaximander answer antithesis apprehended Aristippus Aristotle Aristotle's atoms attained called capacity character chief end cognition conceive consider consists constitution Cyrenaic dialectic distinction doctrine Eleatic school Eleatics element Empedocles endeavour Epicureans Epicurism essence essential ethics existence explain fact faculty feeling habit happiness hence Heraclitus human inasmuch infinite instance intellect intelligence Ionic school justice kind knowledge limited man's matter means merely metaphysical mind moral necessary truth necessity not-Being object opinion opposite original pain Parmenides particles particular passions perfect Pericles philo philosophy Plato pleasure Plotinus present principle proper pursuit Pythagoreans qualities question rational reason regard secondly seems sensation sense sensible Socrates Sophists soul speculations Speusippus Stoicism Stoics summum bonum suppose Thales theory of ideas things thought tion true nature ultimate unity UNIV universal virtue virtuous words Xenocrates Xenophanes Zeno
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Side 395 - But ask not, to what doctors I apply? Sworn to no master, of no sect am I: As drives the storm, at any door I knock: And house with Montaigne now, or now with Locke.
Side 383 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Side xii - If the poetess does not always command our unqualified approbation, we are at all times disposed to bend in reverence before the deep-hearted and highly accomplished woman — a woman, whose powers appear to us to extend over a wider and profounder range of thought and feeling, than ever before fell within the intellectual compass of any of the softer sex.
Side 379 - De te pendentis, te respicientis amici. 105 Ad summam : sapiens uno minor est Jove, dives, Liber, honoratus, pulcher, rex denique regum, Praecipue sanus, nisi cum pituita molesta est. EPISTOLA II. TROJANI belli scriptorem, maxime Lolli, Dum tu declamas Romae, Praeneste relegi, Qui, quid sit pulchrum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non, Planius ac melius Chrysippo et Crantore dicit.
Side 120 - ... reason refuses to lay an arrestment on any period of the passing scene, or to declare that it is, because in the very act of being it is not ; it has given place to something else. It is a series of fleeting colours, no one of which is, because each of them continually vanishes in another.
Side 52 - Ante, mare et tellus, et quod tegit omnia, coelum, Unus erat toto Naturse vultus in orbe, Quern dixere chaos, rudis indigestaque moles.
Side 377 - Still every one believes that they live, and therefore that they work, because it is not supposed that they sleep their time away like Endymion : now, if from a living being you take away action, still more if creation, what remains but contemplation ? So then the...
Side 302 - Then you also know that they summon to their aid visible forms, and discourse about them, though their thoughts are busy not with these forms, but with their originals, and though they discourse not with a view to the particular square and diameter which they draw, but with a view to the absolute square and the absolute diameter, and so on.
Side 337 - The art of medicine, for example, has health for its end. The art of shipbuilding has a ship, and the art of war has victory for its end. These are subordinate ends. But there is an ultimate end, an end in reference to which these, and all other subordinate ends, may be considered as means, a chief end or summum bonum which is desired for its own sake, and not for the sake of anything beyond it.
Side 444 - The exact truth of the matter is this: I have read most of Hegel's works again and again, but I cannot say that I am acquainted with his philosophy. I am able to understand only a few short passages here and there in his writings...