A Biographical History of Philosophy, Том 2Charles Knight & Company, 1845 |
Често срещани думи и фрази
abstract affirm Alexandrian School animal answer Antisthenes appears Arcesilaus Aristippus Aristotle Aristotle's asked Athens Beauty called Carneades cause CHAP CHAPTER Christian conception consequence Criterium Cynics Cyrene declared definition Dialectics dialogues Diogenes disciples discourse distinct divine doctrine Eleatic endeavour Epicureans Epicurus EPOCH eternal Ethics Euclid evil existence Faith false finite Gorg Gorgias Greek happy human Hypostasis Ideal theory Ideas ignoble Induction infinite injustice inquiry Intelligence knowledge learned Logic matter means Megara metaphysical mind moral nature notion noumena object opinions pain passage perceive perceptions person persuasion Phædo Phædrus phenomena Philo Philosophy physician Plato pleasure Plotinus poets Polus premisses principles Proclus punishment Pyrrho question Reason refute resembling respecting rhetoric rhetorician Scepticism sensation sense Sextus Empiricus Socratic Method Sophists soul speculations Stilpo Stoics things thinkers thought Timæus tion true truth universal unjust Virtue Vols words Zeno καὶ τῶν
Популярни откъси
Страница 216 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and wat'ry depths ; all these have vanished , They live no longer in the faith of reason...
Страница 202 - ... arbore glandes. ver erat aeternum, placidique tepentibus auris mulcebant zephyri natos sine semine flores. mox etiam fruges tellus inarata ferebat, nee renovatus ager gravidis canebat aristis : flumina iam lactis, iam flumina nectaris ibant, flavaque de viridi stillabant ilice mella.
Страница 1 - Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.
Страница 117 - The former of these propositions is not a definition at all : the latter is a mere nominal definition or explanation of the use and application of a term. The first is susceptible of truth or falsehood, and may therefore be made the foundation of a train of reasoning.
Страница 203 - ... soft creation slept away their time. The teeming earth, yet guiltless of the plough, And unprovoked, did fruitful stores allow : Content with food, which nature freely bred, On wildings and on strawberries they fed ; Cornels and bramble-berries gave the rest, And falling acorns furnished out a feast. The flowers unsown in fields and meadows reigned ; And western winds immortal spring maintained. In following years, the bearded corn ensued From earth unasked, nor was that earth renewed. From veins...
Страница 253 - For the authors of those great poems which we admire, do not attain to' excellence through the rules of any art, but they utter their beautiful melodies of verse in a state of inspiration, and, as it were, possessed by a spirit not their own.
Страница 178 - ... not touch Science. If all our knowledge is but a knowledge of phenomena, there can still be a Science of Phenomena adequate to all man's true wants. If Sensation is but the effect of an External Cause, we, who can never know that Cause, know it in its relation to us, ie in its Effect. These Effects are as constant as their Causes ; and, consequently, there can be a Science of Effects. Such a Science is that named Positive Science, the aim of which is to trace the Co-existences and Successions...
Страница 220 - I am a part of all that I have met ; Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough Gleams that untravelled world, whose margin fades Forever and forever when I move.
Страница 254 - In other respects, poets may be sufficiently ignorant and incapable. For they do not compose according to any art which they have acquired, but from the impulse of the divinity within them ; for did they know any rules of criticism according to which they could compose beautiful verses upon one subject, they would be able to exert the same faculty with respect to all or any other. The...
Страница 140 - The hospitable keeper of this mansion, where you will find pleasure the .highest good, will present you liberally with barley-cakes and water fresh from the spring. The gardens will not provoke your appetite by artificial dainties, but satisfy it with natural supplies. Will you not be well entertained...