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...ONCEPT OF PERSPECTIVE AND SENSE OF DUTY 8 THE MIGRATORY AND THE SEDENTARY MAN 9 ABSTRACT ON THE ATOM AND ITS ENERGY 11 THE CLASSIC GREEK AND ROMAN PHILOSOPHERS 17 EMPEDOCLES (492-432 BC) Greek Philosopher 20 Proposed the four basic elements: earth, water, air and fire. DEMOCRITUS (470-380 BC) Greek Philosopher 22 The founder of the atomic theory of antiquity. CL...

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...impossible. Agostoni Steuco of Gubbio was right, the differences between philosophers are undifferentiable. Leibniz's expression <true in all possi... ...l and metaphorical comments – which are separated by blank rows. It is an analytical study, and it is related to multiple-valued logic because in alm... ...ugin | passed to that of "stable disequilibrium" (<Truth in the Abstract (Analytical) versus Truth in the Concrete (Empirical)>). A self-regulating ... ...uce the competitions, and thus the progress. My opinion is that some philosophers grope, stumble. They don't have clear ideas or systems, or e... ...n in a hyperspace). Facts exist in isolation from other facts (= the analytic philosophy), and in connection as well with each other (= Wh... ...ivity] (Emile Cioran). And a sage: There is no philosophy, there are only philosophers. Therefore philosophers without philosophy! But reciprocall... ...phers without philosophy! But reciprocally: is there a philosophy without philosophers? "Any big philosophy ends up into a platitude" (Constanti... ... That's why I plead for a philosophical system without system. Not quite analytic philosophy. Congratulations for your failure! If you are defeate... ...comment and argue with them. Everything put in a form of short sections (analytic philosophy), systematically concatenated on themes, notions, cate...

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... empirically-supported laws and/or propositions (statements derived from axioms). Philosophers like Carl Hempel and Ernest Nagel regard a theory a... ... to cope with such quests and is inferior to the tools developed over centuries by philosophers, theologians, and mystics. Moreover, scientists ... ...ive one? If He is dependent and derivative, in which sense is He necessary? Many philosophers confuse the issue of existence with that of necessi... ... his book "Anselm and Actuality", 1970) and Sobel ("Logic and Theism", 2004) noted, philosophers and theologians who argued in favor of God's existe... ...udy a work of art's historical and cultural background in order to appreciate it. Philosophers of science have convincingly demonstrated that theo... ...eses and the antitheses of the antinomies. The opposition in the antinomies is not analytic (no contradiction is involved) - it is dialectic. A met... ... An effect can be caused by many causes or many causes can lead to the same effect. Analytic tools - rather than experiential ones - are called for ... ..., post facto and ad hoc constructions. None of this has methodological, systematic, analytic and predictive merits. Still, the theories in psycholo...

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... structurally and functionally. The equivalent in the brain is sometimes called by philosophers and psychologists "a-priori categories", or "the c... ... post facto and ad hoc constructions. None of this has methodological, systematic, analytic and predictive merits. Still, the theories in psycholog... ...ed in both Europe and America. The study of the human mind, hitherto a preserve of philosophers and theologians, became a legitimate subject of sci... ... empirically-supported laws and/or propositions (statements derived from axioms). Philosophers like Carl Hempel and Ernest Nagel regard a theory a... ..., post facto and ad hoc constructions. None of this has methodological, systematic, analytic and predictive merits. Still, the theories in psycholo... ... post facto and ad hoc constructions. None of this has methodological, systematic, analytic and predictive merits. Still, these theories are powerf...

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...sider only organisms with extremities and the ability to feel pain? Historically, philosophers like Kant (and Descartes, Malebranche, and Aquinas)... ... structurally and functionally. The equivalent in the brain is sometimes called by philosophers and psychologists "a-priori categories", or "the co... ...e Moreover, in life, the human body and form are considered by most religions (and philosophers) to be the abode of the soul, the divine spark that... ...of upbringing and conditioning rather than anything innate. Causes, External Some philosophers say that our life is meaningless because it has a p... ...ehead concluded that mathematics was a branch of the logic of sets and that it is analytical. In other words: the language with which we analyse t... ...ure of things because they are, at bottom, self referential (equivalent to Kant's "analytic propositions"). IIC. Kant According to Kant, our sens... ...society of lack of self- awareness. But choice of words does not a coherence make. Analytic Summary of Kimball Lasch was a member, by conviction, o... ...sly critical sensibility exemplified by psychoanalysis and the degeneration of the 'analytic attitude' into an all out assault on ideals of every ki... ...ather than as a basis for enlightenment. The solution was to blend Marxism and the analytic method of Psychoanalysis (very much as Herbert Marcuse ...

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...sider only organisms with extremities and the ability to feel pain? Historically, philosophers like Kant (and Descartes, Malebranche, and Aquinas)... ... structurally and functionally. The equivalent in the brain is sometimes called by philosophers and psychologists "a-priori categories", or "the co... ...e Moreover, in life, the human body and form are considered by most religions (and philosophers) to be the abode of the soul, the divine spark that... ...of upbringing and conditioning rather than anything innate. Causes, External Some philosophers say that our life is meaningless because it has a p... ...ehead concluded that mathematics was a branch of the logic of sets and that it is analytical. In other words: the language with which we analyse t... ...ure of things because they are, at bottom, self referential (equivalent to Kant's "analytic propositions"). IIC. Kant According to Kant, our sens... ...society of lack of self- awareness. But choice of words does not a coherence make. Analytic Summary of Kimball Lasch was a member, by conviction, o... ...sly critical sensibility exemplified by psychoanalysis and the degeneration of the 'analytic attitude' into an all out assault on ideals of every ki... ...ather than as a basis for enlightenment. The solution was to blend Marxism and the analytic method of Psychoanalysis (very much as Herbert Marcuse ...

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...(H. Kohut. The Chicago Institute Lectures 1972-1976. Marian and Paul Tolpin (Eds.). Analytic Press, 1998) Kohut's contention is nothing less than re... ...ive dimension of the experience. If a psychological process lacks the evaluative or analytic elements, this lack does not question its existence or ... ...ay. Arguments from design have long - and convincingly - been refuted by countless philosophers. Still, human beings do act intentionally. Back t... ...er activists, says Meyerowitz, insist that gender and sexuality represent "distinct analytical categories". The New York Times wrote in its review o...

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...)dt 2 −B(r)dr 2 −C(r) dθ 2 +sin 2 θdϕ 2 , (2a) A,B,C>0, whereA,B,C are analytic functions. I emphatically remark that the geometric relations betw... ...J. Droste [9] and A. Eddington [10], that r 2 can be replaced by a general analytic function of r without destroying the spherical symmetry of (18). L... ... Schwarzschild’sR 2 and Hilbert’s r 2 can be replaced with any appropriate analytic functionC n (r) as given by (24), so the range and the bound- ary ... ...ntional conditions (see [19]) that must be met are inadequate, viz., 1. be analytic; 2. be Lorentz signature; 3. be a solution to Einstein’s free-spac... ...cle. Phys. Rev., 1958, v. 110, 965. 20. Levi-Civita T. Mechanics. — On the analytical expression that must be given to the gravitational tensor in Ein... ...ajor revision of the foundations of Classical Mechanics. Most contemporary philosophers of science focus on the foundational problems of General Relat... ...ty in the study of mechanics has been criticized by various scientists and philosophers of science from shortly after Newton’s enunciation of the laws... ...defnition of force and postulation of absolute space are well known to the philosophers of science and will be further discussed in sections 4, 5 and ...

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...typically associated with certain disciplines. Pure scientists usually experiment. Philosophers prefer inductive reasoning while physicists and math... ...rts intervally scaled variables into ordinal or nominal classes to meet particular analytic needs. Here, the need is simply to create a manageably ... ...anding and teasing, may be termed intimate marketing. This category is.a matter of analytic perspective. Analyzed by a religious person, marriage is... ...onal scaling for statistically exploring virtually any number of attributes. This analytic technique makes it possible to simultaneously compare co... ... The line between product and idea is obviously vexing to the courts as well as to philosophers and idea marketers. SUMMARY Following some histo... ...t on the "cold sores" of society and ignored the "cancers.” Few of the impressive analytical powers of market researchers have been applied to solv...

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...t of the world functions in just such a mechanistic manner. Many contemporary philosophers recognized that while this view yielded great benefits, i... ...sations and impressions of the spiritual world that enrich the new memory and analytic abilities of the new mind. Consequently, the world-picture cr... ... I V: R E A L I Z I N G T H E S P I R I T UA L G E N E 186 Many scientists and philosophers admit that they relate to the world as to a real threat. ... ...as “Elohim” (God). And this is the truth that the Creator concealed from the philosophers. --Ramchal, The Book of the War of Moses, Rule 15 Rabbi El... ...ehuda Ashlag), such as Talmud Eser Sefirot and Zohar. Although scientists and philosophers will delight in its illumina- tion, laymen will also enjoy...

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... how seamlessly Macaulay coupled beautiful, evoca- tive writing and careful, analytic argument. Admittedly, he was remarkable even in his own time, bu... ...es not have the same luminance and importance for us today as it did for the philosophers of the Enlightenment or the French Revolution. He argued tha... ... that the story takes a new turn, something that neither Jeffer- son nor the philosophers of the Scottish Enlightenment had thought of, something that... ...udely speaking, the environmental movement was deeply influenced by two basic analytical frameworks. The first was the idea of ecology: the fragile, com... ...lism, we need not only a semantic reorganization, or a set of conceptual and analytic tools, but a movement of people devoted to bringing a goal to th... ...294; and ecology, 239–240; and externality, 239–240; and populariza- tion of analytic framework, 240; cri- tique of analogy to intellectual property, ...

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...quality with economic and psychological realities within an impatient timetable. Philosophers tried to specify a "bundle" or "package" of goods, ... ...one of us will be too happy with a standardized bundle, selected by a committee of philosophers - or bureaucrats, as was the case under communism. ... ...ity, the ability to see the bigger picture (synoptic view), interpersonal aptitude, analytic and synthetic skills, not to mention numeracy, literacy... .... This, then, is a great change of even greater consequences. Let us remember that philosophers have been the legislators in later centuries (laws ...

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... level at the end of every art, And live and die in Aristotle’s works. Sweet Analytics, ’tis thou hast ravish’d me! Bene disserere est finis logices. ... ...” terrifies not me, For I confound hell in Elysium: My ghost be with the old philosophers! But, leaving these vain trifles of men’s souls, Tell me wha...

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...e of philosopher is not merely the possession of a superb intellect in its analytic functions (in which part of the pretensions, however, En- gland ca... ...ek text] for all human woes; here was the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had disputed for so many ages, at once discovered: happiness m... ...asionally. But my proper vocation, as I well know, was the exercise of the analytic understanding. Now, for the most part analytic studies are continu...

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... unrecorded, that I still had loved The exercise and produce of a toil, Than analytic industry to me 385 More pleasing, and whose character I deem Is ... ... Sicilian Tyrant’s overthrow, Sailed from Zacynthus,—philosophic war, Led by Philosophers. With harder fate, Though like ambition, such was he, O Frie... ...n’s liveliness, 195 In all their comprehensive bearings known And visible to philosophers of old, Men who, to business of the world untrained, Lived i...

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... unrecorded, that I still have lov’d The exercise and produce of a toil Than analytic industry to me More pleasing, and whose character I deem 405 Is ... ...Sicilian tyrant’s overthrow 425 Sailed from Zacynthus—philosophic war Led by philosophers. With harder fate, Though like ambition, such was he, O frie... ...lation’s liveliness In all their comprehensive bearings known And visible to philosophers of old, Men who, to business of the world untrained, Lived i...

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...lyly, humbly but cunningly—to those whom he professed to regard as greater philosophers than himself. All parties found their account in the affair. P... ...he gates of cities, under the title of ‘swine,’ but caressed their infidel philosophers. Now, in this category of Jew and infidel, stood the author of... ... East and West, and all annuity offices, that stand opposed in interest to philosophers! In 1814, however, to my great regret, I did not see him; for ... ...on, becomes obviously impos- sible, when it is perceived that the supposed analytic ele- ments of this synthesis are blank reiterations of each other....

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...e had never heard there was such a thing as that. But, perhaps, to be true philosophers, we mortals should not be conscious of so living or so strivin... ...a distance off Cape Horn. Of a retiring nature, he eludes both hunters and philosophers. Though no coward, he has never yet shown any part of him but ... ....” Very often do the captains of such ships take those absent minded young philosophers to task, upbraiding them with not feel ing sufficient “interes... ...rom which we shrink? And when we consider that other theory of the natural philosophers, that all other earthly hues — every stately or lovely emblazo... ...rew to be subjected to. For all these reasons then, and others perhaps too analytic to be verbally de veloped here, Ahab plainly saw that he must sti... ...rhaps fifty of these whale bone whales are harpooned for one cachalot, some philosophers of the forecastle have concluded that this positive havoc has ...

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...a distance off Cape Horn. Of a retiring nature, he eludes both hunters and philosophers. Though no coward, he has never yet shown any part of him but ... ... V ery often do the captains of such ships take those absent- minded young philosophers to task, upbraiding them with not feeling sufficient “interest... ...rom which we shrink? And when we consider that other theory of the natural philosophers, that all other earthly hues—every stately or lovely emblazoni... ...rew to be subjected to. For all these reasons then, and others perhaps too analytic to be verbally developed here, Ahab plainly saw that he must still... ...ps fifty of these whale-bone whales are har- pooned for one cachalot, some philosophers of the forecastle have concluded that this positive havoc has ...

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...d up and directed by his own hand. It would be ridiculous to be prying and analytic in such cases, as if one were inquiring into the character of a co... ...pedlars, who brought bargains to the door on sunny after- noons. Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is ...

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...Xenophon’s Cyropaedia and Memorials of Socrates; some of the lives of the philosophers by Diogenes Laertius; part of Lucian, and Isocrates ad Demonic... ...with Logic, in which I began at once with the Organon, and read it to the Analytics inclusive, but profited little by the Poste rior Analytics, whic... ...red from reli gion, were very much of the character of those of the Greek philosophers; and were delivered with the force and decision which characte... ... sures. Accordingly, temperance, in the large sense intended by the Greek philosophers—stopping short at the point of moderation in all indulgences—w... ...my father’s direction, my studies were carried into the higher branches of analytic psychology. I now read Locke’s Essay, and wrote out an ac count ... ...an the one I ultimately executed. Having done with Logic, we launched into Analytic Psy chology, and having chosen Hartley for our text book, we 71 ... ...oined together in Nature, to cohere more and more closely in our thoughts. Analytic habits may thus even strengthen the associations between causes an... ...he formation of my character anew, and create, in a mind now irretrievably analytic, fresh associations of plea sure with any of the objects of human... ...y. This source of anxiety may, perhaps, be thought to resemble that of the philosophers of Laputa, who feared lest the sun should be burnt out. It was...

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...ncient logic can be usefully ap- plied. The weapons of common sense, not the analytics of Aristotle, are needed for their overthrow. Nor is the use of... ...r use. Those who have no knowledge of logic, like some of our great physical philosophers, seem to be quite as good reasoners as those who have. Most ... ... of a class who have the highest opin- ion of themselves and a spite against philosophers, whom they imagine to be their rivals. They are a class who ... ...ates to him that he should not give up philosophy because he has no faith in philosophers, seems to be a preparation for the more peremptory declarati... ...what I said before to Cleinias that you do not understand the ways of these philosophers from abroad. They are not serious, but, like the Egyptian wi... ...- ing one of those whom Prodicus describes as on the bor- der-ground between philosophers and statesmen they think that they are the wisest of all men...

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... place “One” among the goods in their double list of goods and bads: which philosophers, in fact, Speusippus seems to have followed. 27 The Ethics of... ... prove its truth if he should ask. But these terms are employed elsewhere (Analytica Post I cap. 11. sect. 10) to denote respectively particulars and ... ...nihil enim impedio. P 6, l. 1. Or “prove themselves good,” as in the Prior Analytics, ii 25, [Greek: apanta pisteuomen k.t l] but the other rendering ... ...st upon Compassion. P. 133, l. 24. It is the opening statement of the Post Analytics. P . 133, l. 27. Aristotle in his logical analysis of Induction, ... ...cs. P . 133, l. 27. Aristotle in his logical analysis of Induction, Prior. Analytics II. 25, defines it to be “the proving the in- herence of the majo... ...l to compare on the subject of Induction as the term is used by Aristotle, Analytica Prior. II 25 26 Analytica Post. I. 1, 3, and I. Topics VI I and X...

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...inly a description of a Utopia or ideal state which might inspire poets or philosophers but have little direct effect upon political institutions. Pla... ... Intro- duction, by O. F. Owen (Bohn’s Classical Library), 1848. Posterior Analytics, E. Poste, 1850; E. S. Bourchier, 1901; On Fallacies, E. Poste, 1... ...duction by A. Lang, 1877. 15 Aristotle Problemata (with writings of other philosophers), 1597, 1607, 1680, 1684, etc. Rhetorica: A summary by T . Hob... ...ng a large sum of money by that means, convinced them that it was easy for philosophers to be rich if they chose it, but that that was not what they a... ...orms of government, which have been proposed either by private persons, or philosophers, or politicians, all of which come much nearer to those which ... ...mon opinion, that justice is a certain equality; and in this point all the philosophers are agreed when they treat of morals: for they say what is jus...

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...etween the two, and that both belong to what actually exists in the world. Philosophers, on the other hand, have maintained often that matter is a mer... ...perty of proto- plasm are called “materialists.” They have been rare among philosophers, but common, at certain periods, among men 8 Bertrand Russell... ...d, if I am not mistaken, incapable of maintaining itself either against an analytic scrutiny or against a host of facts in psycho-analysis and animal ... ... a wide field of “unconscious” phenomena which does not depend upon psycho-analytic theories. Such occurrences as automatic writing lead Dr. Morton Pr... ...opean phi- losophy since Aristotle has been dominated by the fact that the philosophers spoke Indo-European languages, and therefore supposed the worl... ...ato onward the “idea” has played a great part in the systems of idealizing philosophers. The “idea” has been, in their hands, always something noble a... ... Columbus discovered America,” “that Charles I died in his bed,” “that all philosophers are wise,” are propositions. Not any series of words is a prop... ...urist, this must certainly count as knowledge, however it may be viewed by analytic psychology. In this case, what is known, roughly, is the stimulus;... ... except observation. I assume, that is to say, a trained observer, with an analytic attention, knowing the sort of thing to look for, and the sort of ...

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...valuable as illustrating the great truth, too gener- ally overlooked, that analytic power is a subordinate quality of the critic. On the whole, it may... ...Some few are mountebanks. Others more particularly be- long to the race of philosophers. The greatest portion, how- ever — those especially who belabo... ...at a screaming of beasts! what a tinkling of instruments! what a parcel of philosophers!” Come let us be off. “Stay a moment! I see a vast hubbub in t... ... conjecture. —Sir Thomas Browne. THE MENTAL FEATURES discoursed of as the analytical, are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis. We appr... ...y had turned outward the faces of their own. 118 Poe in Five V olumes The analytical power should not be confounded with ample ingenuity; for while t... ...ted general observation among writers on morals. Between ingenuity and the analytic ability there exists a difference far greater, indeed, than that b... ...enious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic. The narrative which follows will appear to the reader some- what ...

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... Walden 13 lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor. The ancient philosophers, Chinese, Hindoo, Persian, and Greek, were a class than which ... ...r literature, or art. There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers. Yet it is admirable to profess because it was once admirable ... ...nation that lived simply in all Walden 52 respects, that is, no nation of philosophers, would com mit so great a blunder as to use the labor of anim... ...of animals. True, there never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be. Howeve... ...s was not indispensablenfor my discoveries were not by the syn thetic but analytic process and I have gladly omitted it since, though most housewive... ... a Sunday morn ing walk in clean shirts, fishermen and hunters, poets and philosophers; in short, all honest pilgrims, who came out to the woods for ...

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...est have ever lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor. The ancient philosophers, Chinese, Hindoo, Persian, and Greek, were a class than whic... ... or literature, or art. There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers. Yet it is admirable to profess because it was once admirabl... ...Certainly no nation that lived simply in all respects, that is, no nation of philosophers, would commit so great a blunder as to use the labor of anim... ...r of animals. True, there never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be. Howe... ...is was not indispensable, — for my discoveries were not by the synthetic but analytic process, — and I have gladly omitted it since, though most house... ...aking a Sunday morning walk in clean shirts, fishermen and hunters, poets and philosophers, in short, all honest pilgrims, who came out to the woods fo...

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...l Health.” There was Sir Positive Paradox. He observed that all fools were philosophers, and that all philosophers were fools. There was Æstheticus Et... ...es, who looked upon him as merely an ingenious sort of madman, because the philosophers (?) of the day declared the thing impossible. Re- ally now it ... ...publican government could never be any thing but a rascally one. While the philosophers, however, were busied in blush- ing at their stupidity in not ... ...ere were, I well remember, many very successful experi- ments in what some philosophers were weak enough to de- nominate the creation of animalculae. ... ...ented to his inspection—he could have no difficulty in determining, by the analytic retrogradation, to what original impulse it was due. This power of...

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...eems to me, the deepest of errors. Great theologians are they, and eminent philosophers, who have presumed that (as a matter of course) all religions,... ...y of God’s attributes; suppose holiness or hap- piness, she feels, (though analytically she could not explain,) that God is not holy or is not happy b... ... is sufficient (given a multitude of minds) to lead backwards or forwards, analytically or synthetically, into many of the rest. That is the principle... ...has been committed on this subject, not by scholars only, but by religious philosophers. The relation of Christian ethics (which word ethics, how- eve... ...oved by W allis, Savilian professor of geometry at Oxford, the improver of analytic mathematics, and the great historian of algebra. Algebra it was th... ...sule Romam!’ and he mentioned the fact at all only for the sake of Natural Philosophers or of the curious in old women. Char- ity, even in that sense,... ...y to century, from the simplicity of shepherds to the utmost refinement of philosophers, carries with it a neces- sity, corresponding to such infinite... ... social philosophy, during many centuries, drew no especial attention from philosophers. It passed for a tru- ism, bearing no particular emphasis or m...

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... married philosopher is ridiculous, though the men of their choice are not philosophers. When they finally give up the idea of reforming our marriage ... ...le, and that even the most experi- enced people have not always sufficient analytic faculty to dis- entangle it from the sentiments, sympathetic or ab...

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...as of light, the varying aspects of [36] “I know not to what physical laws philosophers will some day refer the feelings of melancholy. For myself, I ... ...ectures has been defended by some of your very ablest Scottish reli- gious philosophers.[52] [52] The Cairds, for example. In Edward Caird’s Glasgow L... ...ciple of reconciliation.” The Evolution of Religion, ii. pp. 146, 147. But philosophers usually profess to give a quasi- logical explanation of the ex... ...thematicians handle the same numeri- cal and spatial facts by geometry, by analytical geom- etry, by algebra, by the calculus, or by quaternions, and ... ... systems are ever to fuse integrally into one absolute conception, as most philosophers assume that they must, and how, if so, that conception may bes... ...r out of place. I ask you now not to forget this notion; for although most philosophers seem ei- ther to forget it or to disdain it too much ever to m... ...religious constructions once more. For the moment, let me dryly pursue the analytic part of the task. Both thought and feeling are determinants of con...