The Ethics of Hercules: A Study of Man's Body as the Sole Determinant of Ethical Values

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A. A. Knopf, 1924 - Literary Collections - 202 pages
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Page 189 - O world, as God has made it ! All is beauty : And knowing this, is love, and love is duty.
Page 75 - Aristotle downwards, philosophers should have vied with each other in scorn of the knowledge of the particular, and in adoration of that of the general, is hard to understand, seeing that the more adorable knowledge ought to be that of the more adorable things, and that the things of worth are all concretes and singulars. The only value of universal characters is that they help us, by reasoning, to know new truths about individual things.
Page 189 - As a method of salvation this is even easier and more aesthetic than that of the Ancient Mariner, who, it will be remembered, is relieved of the burden of his transgression by admiring the color of watersnakes!
Page 94 - And I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority: To do a great right, do a little wrong, And curb this cruel devil of his will.
Page 36 - ... our thoughts in connection with these terms, and as we afterwards find it more easy to recall the words than the things signified by them, we can scarcely conceive anything with such distinctness as to separate entirely what we conceive from the words that were selected to express it. On this account the majority attend to words rather than to things ; and thus very frequently assent to terms without attaching to them any meaning, either because they think they once understood them, or imagine...
Page 16 - Our present point is that the specific response and the "wish," as Freud uses the term, are one and the same thing. This thing, in its essential definition, is a course of action •which the living body executes or is prepared to execute with regard to some object or some fact of its environment.
Page 157 - Therefore, though he that is subject to no civil law, sinneth in all he does against his conscience, because he has no other rule to follow but his own reason; yet it is not so with him that lives in a commonwealth; because the law is the public conscience, by which he...
Page 95 - Whose fault ? Whose but his own ? Ingrate, he had of me All he could have ; I made him just and right, Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.
Page 36 - Summary of what must be observed in order to philosophize correctly. Wherefore if we would philosophize in earnest, and give ourselves to the search after all the truths we are capable, of knowing, we must, in the first place, lay aside our prejudices ; in other words, we must take care scrupulously to withhold our assent from the opinions we have formerly admitted, until upon new examination we discover that they are true.
Page 94 - Is this the region, this the soil, the clime" Said then the lost Archangel, "this the seat That we must change for Heaven?

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