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... 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... ...g (for it did) Engirt by that it girdeth. Wherefore love, With loss of other object, forc’d me bend Mine eyes on Beatrice once again. If all, tha... ...gaz’d. It may not be, That one, who looks upon that light, can turn To other object, willingly, his view. For all the good, that will may covet, there... ...amours. From behind the swine of St. Anthony, our Poet levels a blow at the object of his inveterate enmity, Boniface VIII, from whom, “in 1297, they...

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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... ...s. The arguments are nearly , if not quite, those of Aristotle; they are the objections which naturally occur to a modern student of philosophy . Many... ...stotle; they are the objections which naturally occur to a modern student of philosophy . Many persons will be surprised to find Plato criticizing the... ... without them? How can he have ever persisted in them after seeing the fatal objections which might be urged against them? The consideration of this d... ...nd Sophist, and therefore on the Politicus (compare Theaet., Soph.). But the objection is in reality fanciful, and rests on the assumption that the do... ... others as relative to the human mind, existing in and derived from external objects as well as tran scending them. The anamnesis of the Ideas is chi... ... subject of the Parmenides, we may remark that Plato is quite serious in his objections to his own doc trines: nor does Socrates attempt to offer any...

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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... ...e popular definition of falsehood or error . If we were met by the Sophist’s objection, the reply would probably be an appeal to experi ence. T en th... ...there is one kind which pursues inanimate, and another which pursues animate objects; and animate objects may be either land animals or water animals,... ... aspect is the mysticism of the Symposium. He does not deny the existence of objects of sense, but according to him they only receive their true meani... .... For philosophy must begin somewhere and may begin anywhere,—with out ward objects, with statements of opinion, with abstract principles. But object... ... and goes on to the concrete, not in the lower sense of returning to outward objects, but to the 44 Sophist – Plato Hegelian concrete or unity of abs...

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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... ...no illustrated the contradiction by well-known examples taken from outward objects. But Socrates seems to intimate that the time had arrived for disca... ...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... ...world would to our- selves. Nor was he assisted by the analogy of sensible objects. The sphere of mind was dark and mysterious to him; but instead of ... ...ole has many parts, that the continuous is also the divisible, that in all objects of sense there is a one and many, and that a like principle may be ... ... 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... ...rds them as fall- ing under the finite class. Again, we are able to define objects or ideas, not in so far as they are in the mind, but in so far as t... ... from the more abstract to the less abstract; from the subjec- tive to the objective; until at the lower end of the scale we fairly descend into the r...

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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... ...gara. The character of Adeimantus is deeper and graver, and the profounder objections are commonly put into his mouth. Glaucon is more demonstrative,... ...re composed entirely of good men, then to avoid office would be as much an object of contention as to obtain office is at present; then we should have... ...also. I dare say. When the State is completed there may be a hope that the object of our search will be more easily discovered. Yes, far more easily. ... ... the doer must follow up what he is doing, and make the business his first object. He must. And if so, we must infer that all things are produced more... ...To secure such an exchange was, as you will remember, one of our principal objects when we formed them into a society and constituted a State. Clearly...

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...ntro ducing or following it. The two Dialogues to gether contain the whole philosophy of Plato on the nature of love, which in the Republic and in t... ... fully or as a figure of speech. But in the Phaedrus and Symposium love and philosophy join hands, and one is an aspect of the other. The spiritual a... ...hosen the life of a philosopher or of a 9 Phaedrus lover who is not without philosophy receives her wings at the close of the third millennium; the r... ... not that which is taught in the schools of rheto ric; it is nearer akin to philosophy. Pericles, for instance, who was the most accomplished of all ... ...entionalities of rhetoric; secondly , of disinterested or mad love, fixed on objects of sense, and answering, per haps, to poetry; thirdly , of disin... ...ner and unseen world, which seemed to exist far more truly than the fleeting objects of sense which were without him. When we are once able to imagine... ...e dome of heaven they behold the intangible invisible essences which are not objects of sight. This is because the force of language can no further go... ..., wherever he is al lowed, as near as he can to his desired one, who is the object of his worship, and the physician who can alone assuage the greatn... ...not try to please his fellow servants (at least this should not be his first object) but his good and noble masters; and therefore if the way is long ...

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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 ... ...re existence of the soul stands or falls with the doc trine of ideas. It is objected by Simmias and Cebes that these arguments only prove a former an... ...ents only prove a former and not a future existence. Socrates an swers this objection by recalling the previous argument, in which he had shown that ... ... compound, the unchanging or the changing, the invisible idea or the visible object of sense? Clearly the latter and not the former; and therefore not... .... 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 ... ... truth. Simmias and Cebes remain in doubt; but they are unwill ing to raise objections at such a time. Socrates wonders at their reluctance. Let them... ...o the lyre? And yet the harmony does not survive the lyre. Cebes has also an objection, which like Simmias he expresses in a figure. He is willing to ... ...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...

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... said of one of his own writings, more than the author himself knew . For in philosophy as in prophecy glimpses of the fu ture may often be conveyed ... ...thagorean, Eleatic, or Megarian systems, and ‘t he old quarrel of poetry and philosophy’has at least a superficial reconcilement. (Rep.) An unknown pe... ...hese two customs—one the love of youth, the other the practice of virtue and philosophy— meet in one, then the lovers may lawfully unite. Nor is there... ...haracter; whereas the noble love of the other remains the same, although the object of his love is unworthy: for nothing can be nobler than love for t... ... ful and the serious, are so subtly intermingled in it, and vestiges of old philosophy so curiously blend with germs of future knowledge, that agreem... ...meal Agathon several times expressed a wish to send for him, but Aristodemus objected; and at last when the feast was about half over—for the fit, as ... ..., and is of the body rather than of the soul—the most foolish beings are the objects of this love which desires only to 45 Plato s Symposium gain an ... ...l be improved by his company , shows himself to be virtuous, even though the object of his affection turn out to be a villain, and to have no virtue; ... ...g who show all this eagerness and heat which is called love? and what is the object which they have in view? Answer me.’ ‘Nay , Diotima,’ I replied, ...

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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... ...d the king side by side with the bird-catcher; king or vermin- destroyer are objects of equal interest to science (compare Parmen.). There are other p... ...ommands to others. Again, a ruler is concerned with the produc- tion of some object, and objects may be divided into living and lifeless, and rulers i... ... into living and lifeless, and rulers into the rulers of living and lifeless objects. And the king is not like the master-builder, concerned with life... ...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 ... ...ng in the one part all the arts which measure the relative size or number of objects, and in the other all those which depend upon a mean or standard.... ...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... ...ju- dices may sometimes be flattered and yielded to for the sake of ulterior objects by those who have political power. They will often learn by exper...

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...izens do not teach their sons political virtue. Will Protagoras answer these objections? Protagoras explains his views in the form of an apologue, in ... ... 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... ...as well. Now suppose, that while we are thus en thusiastically pursuing our object some one were to say to us: Tell me, Socrates, and you Hippocrates... ...eir deliberations; and when any one else interferes, then, as you say , they object, if he be not of the favoured few; which, as I reply , is very nat... ... you will only answer me and say whether you are of their opinion or not. My object is to test the validity of the argument; and yet the result may be... ...rates, aim at this precise and extreme brev ity in discourse, if Protagoras objects, but loosen and let go the reins of speech, that your words may b...

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...e began bustling about, making preparations to go to Petersburg, with what object he could not himself have said. He would perhaps have really gone; b... ...her’s tomb. He practically acknowledged at the time that that was the only object of his visit. But it can hardly have been the whole reason of it. It... ...ld habit, alas! And if I sometimes talk nonsense out of place it’s with an object, with the object of amusing people and making myself agreeable. One ... ...in the town, not like a pilgrim. Her eyes showed that she had come with an object, and in order to say something. She said she was the widow of a non-... ...idently did not want to break up the party. He seemed to have some special object of his own in keeping them. What object? Alyosha watched him intentl... ... 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... ...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, ... ...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...

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... You don’t suppose he too came to murder me, do you? He must have had some object in coming.” “What do you mean? Why do you say such things?” said... ...e for another twenty years. As I get older, you know, I shan’t be a pretty object. The wenches won’t come to me of their own accord, so I shall want m... ... 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... ...have business with me. You would never have looked in upon me without some object. Unless you come simply to complain of the boy, and that’s hardly li... ...t dinner on purpose to tease you and I saw your eyes glow. But now I’ve no objection to discussing with you, and I say so very seriously. I want to be... ...answer. Imagine that you are creat- ing a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest at last, ... ...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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...g left in their whole being. Such a gentleman simply dashes straight for his object like an infuriated bull with its horns down, and nothing but a wal... ... feel vindictive against, that you have not, and perhaps never will have, an object for your spite, that it is a sleight of hand, a bit of juggling, a... ...ss, anger in me is subject to chemical disintegration. You look into it, the object flies off into air, your reasons evaporate, the criminal is not to... ...e moral and rational persons, sages and lovers of humanity who make it their object to live all their lives as morally and rationally as possible, to ... ...rom the Underground Dostoyevsky 22 by his curse alone he will attain his object—that is, convince himself that he is a man and not a piano key! I...

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...he would have none of, at any rate not till later on, when I had attained my object. This severe tone was a positive delight to me. I added as cursori... ...opting such a call ing — that is, in keeping a pawnbroker’s shop, I had one object, hinting there was a special circumstance … but I really had a rig... ...as scornful of, but my supposed miserliness in the housekeeping: “he has his objects,” she seemed to say, “he is showing his strength of will.” She su... ... She looked at me and at the revolver (note that the revolver was already an object familiar to her. I had kept one loaded ever since I opened the sho...

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...rm’d.” “We view, as one who hath an evil sight,” He answer’d, “plainly, objects far remote: So much of his large spendour yet imparts The’ Almigh... ...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... ...re to descend the precipice We came, was rough as Alp, and on its verge Such object lay, as every eye would shun. As is that ruin, which Adice’s ... ...!” Than was my dread, when round me on each part The air I view’d, and other object none Save the fell beast. He slowly sailing, wheels His downward m... ... 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. ... ..., “Assur’d that to your eyes unveil’d shall shine The lofty light, sole object of your wish, So may heaven’s grace clear whatsoe’er of foam Float... ...ut the other swerves, The Divine Comedy of Dante Purgatory 175 If on ill object bent, or through excess Of vigour, or defect. While e’er it seeks ... ...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...

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...rm’d.” “We view, as one who hath an evil sight,” He answer’d, “plainly, objects far remote: So much of his large spendour yet imparts The’ Almigh... ...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... ...re to descend the precipice We came, was rough as Alp, and on its verge Such object lay, as every eye would shun. As is that ruin, which Adice’s ... ...!” Than was my dread, when round me on each part The air I view’d, and other object none Save the fell beast. He slowly sailing, wheels His downward m... ... 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. ...

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...th as for the improvement of his mind), and was consequently free from his official duties and had nothing whatever to do that morning, he offered no objection to his wife?s irresistible fancy, but was positively aflame with curiosity himself....

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...official duties and had nothing whatever to do that morn ing, he offered no objection to his wife’s irresistible fancy, but was positively aflame wit... ...probably op 5 Dostoevsky’s “The Crocodile” pressed by the magnitude of the object he had swallowed, once more opened his terrible jaws, and with a f... ...that despairing countenance had only popped out to cast one last look on the objects around it, to take its last farewell of all earthly pleasures. Bu... ...r hitherto, Timofey Semyonitch.” “Hm ... yes,” he reflected again. “Your objection is a just one, if you like, and might indeed serve as a ground ... ...Russian tem perament has found a fresh outlet. It may be asked what was the object of the uninvited visitor? A warm and comfortable abode? But there ...

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...e began bustling about, making preparations to go to Petersburg, with what object he could not himself have said. He would perhaps have really gone; b... ...her’s tomb. He practically acknowledged at the time that that was the only object of his visit. But it can hardly have been the whole reason of it. It... ...ld habit, alas! And if I sometimes talk nonsense out of place it’s with an object, with the object of amusing people and making myself agreeable. One ... ...in the town, not like a pilgrim. Her eyes showed that she had come with an object, and in order to say something. She said she was the widow of a non-... ...idently did not want to break up the party. He seemed to have some special object of his own in keeping them. What object? Alyosha watched him intentl...

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.... There are people, finally, who dislike dash ing and whirling about for no object, fawning, and licking the dust, and above all, gentlemen, poking t... ...at his posi tion, as far as he could see, was quite a proper one. With this object he rivetted his gaze on the lining of his coat, ten raised his eye... ... very principal thing in it, and isn’t here for nothing, but is here with an object, crossing my path and provoking me.” Possibly, how ever, he did ... ...to think of any thing at all. He even closed his eyes at last with the same object. Suddenly, through the howling of the wind and the uproar of the s... ...ith shame, and buried his devoted head in his papers with precisely the same object with which the ostrich, pursued by hunters, hides his head in the ...

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... controversy respecting the criterion of right and wrong. From the dawn of philosophy, the ques tion concerning the summum bonum, or, what is the sa... ...f the matters in dispute—those believers in it who have any pretensions to philosophy, have been obliged to abandon the idea that it discerns what is ... ...tinguishing it from what it is not, and disposing of such of the practical objections to it as either originate in, or are closely connected with, mis... ...as (as they express it) no higher end than pleasure—no better and no bler object of desire and pursuit—they designate as utterly mean and grovelling;... ...nothing which conflicts with it could be, otherwise than momen tarily, an object of desire to them. Whoever supposes that this preference takes place... ...he question. The other party to the comparison knows both sides. It may be objected, that many who are capable of the higher pleasures, occasionally, ... ... though perfectly aware that health is the greater good. It may be further objected, that many who begin with youth ful enthusiasm for everything nob... ...tings of persons of the greatest pretensions both to high principle and to philosophy. We not uncommonly hear the doctrine of utility inveighed agains... ...? whence does it derive its binding force? It is a necessary part of moral philosophy to provide the answer to this question; which, though frequently...