Rural Philosophy: Or Reflections on Knowledge, Virtue, and Happiness; Chiefly in Reference to a Life of Retirement in the CountryLongman and Rees, 1804 - 383 من الصفحات |
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... Plato , who soared much higher , seem to have had no proper idea of creation , but to have considered matter as an eternal and independent principle , out of which a di- vine mind ( first introduced , as is said , by the former of these ...
... Plato , who soared much higher , seem to have had no proper idea of creation , but to have considered matter as an eternal and independent principle , out of which a di- vine mind ( first introduced , as is said , by the former of these ...
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... Plato or Aristotle , of Malbranche or Locke ; and that , with all the metaphysical skill of these great men united , he may pass his days to no practical purpose , and at last die in a fatal self - ignorance . To know ourselves ...
... Plato or Aristotle , of Malbranche or Locke ; and that , with all the metaphysical skill of these great men united , he may pass his days to no practical purpose , and at last die in a fatal self - ignorance . To know ourselves ...
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... Plato himself failed greatly in several important points of practical morality ; he prescribed a community of wives in his scheme of a perfect common- wealth , and in other respects gave much scope to the sensual passions ; he allowed ...
... Plato himself failed greatly in several important points of practical morality ; he prescribed a community of wives in his scheme of a perfect common- wealth , and in other respects gave much scope to the sensual passions ; he allowed ...
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... Plato " did wisely when he banished Homer " from his ideal republic * . " My next authority is that of the great Roman orator and philosopher , who , in his Tusculan Questions , speaks to this purpose : " Who " sees not the mischief ...
... Plato " did wisely when he banished Homer " from his ideal republic * . " My next authority is that of the great Roman orator and philosopher , who , in his Tusculan Questions , speaks to this purpose : " Who " sees not the mischief ...
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... Plato did well when he ba- “ nished them from that imaginary repub- lic , which he endeavoured to construct upon principles the most agreeable to " virtue and good order . order . But we , alas ! " after the fashion of the Greeks , are ...
... Plato did well when he ba- “ nished them from that imaginary repub- lic , which he endeavoured to construct upon principles the most agreeable to " virtue and good order . order . But we , alas ! " after the fashion of the Greeks , are ...
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