Ideals: A Guide to Moral and Metaphysical Outlooks |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 9
Page 32
... happiness ? The feeling that power is growing , that resistance is overcome . Not contentedness but more power ; not peace but war , not virtue but fitness ( Renaissance virtue , ' virtu ' , virtue that is morality - free ) . The weak ...
... happiness ? The feeling that power is growing , that resistance is overcome . Not contentedness but more power ; not peace but war , not virtue but fitness ( Renaissance virtue , ' virtu ' , virtue that is morality - free ) . The weak ...
Page 52
... happier than those Who live calm pious lives day after day . ' ( Euripides , Bellerophon , from the Oxford Book of Greek Verse in Translation ) ( b ) I give some examples of what these little people put into their heads , what they put ...
... happier than those Who live calm pious lives day after day . ' ( Euripides , Bellerophon , from the Oxford Book of Greek Verse in Translation ) ( b ) I give some examples of what these little people put into their heads , what they put ...
Page 62
... happiest state , to which they can aspire ; and therefore the common good of all is the supreme law . ( Richard ... happiness , whether the approver be one of the persons beloved , or profited , or not ; so that kind affections ...
... happiest state , to which they can aspire ; and therefore the common good of all is the supreme law . ( Richard ... happiness , whether the approver be one of the persons beloved , or profited , or not ; so that kind affections ...
Contents
FOREWORD by the Reverend Canon Ronald H Preston | 8 |
A Selfobeying | 27 |
B Otherobeying | 37 |
Copyright | |
5 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Abraham Adam Bede advantage Aristotle Asshur authority behave believe benevolence better Bible Brothers Karamazov Buddhist Charles Gore choose Christian commands concerned conscience considering course divine earth Edwyn Bevan emotions Epictetus Epicurus ethics example external extracts faith fear follow four modes friends give guilt gunfighter happiness harm hath heaven honor human ideals and outlooks important inner feelings instance justice justifying kill Lakedaimon least live logical look matter mean metaphysical modes of thought Moral Education nature Nicomachean Ethics obey one's other-considering mode other-obeying mode ourselves particular passages people's interests person Philosophy Plato principle question R. M. Hare rational religious self-considering mode self-obeying mode sense sort soul style Summa Theologica talk Talmud Taoism thee thine things Thou shalt Troilus and Cressida truth universe unto virtue Wilson words