The Intellectual Tradition of the West: Copernicus to KafkaMorton Donner, Kenneth Eugene Eble, Robert E. Helbling Scott, Foresman, 1967 - Civilization, Western |
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... happiness , then nature would have hit upon a very bad arrangement when it selected the reason of the creature to carry out this function . For all the actions which the creature has to perform with a view to this purpose , and the ...
... happiness , then nature would have hit upon a very bad arrangement when it selected the reason of the creature to carry out this function . For all the actions which the creature has to perform with a view to this purpose , and the ...
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... happiness , but the greatest amount of happiness altogether ; and , if it may possibly be doubted whether a noble character is always the happier for its nobleness , there can be no doubt that it makes other people happier , and that ...
... happiness , but the greatest amount of happiness altogether ; and , if it may possibly be doubted whether a noble character is always the happier for its nobleness , there can be no doubt that it makes other people happier , and that ...
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... happiness is wrapt up . As for vicissitudes of fortune and other disappoint- ments connected with worldly ... happiness . Unquestionably it is possible to do without happiness ; it is done involuntarily by nineteen - twentieths of ...
... happiness is wrapt up . As for vicissitudes of fortune and other disappoint- ments connected with worldly ... happiness . Unquestionably it is possible to do without happiness ; it is done involuntarily by nineteen - twentieths of ...
Contents
Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres | 3 |
JOHANNES KEPLER | 18 |
GALILEO GALILEI | 26 |
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absolute action animals appear Aristotle astronomical BASIL WILLEY believe Bertrand Russell body bourgeois bourgeoisie called categorical imperative cause century Charles Darwin conceive conception consciousness consider contrary Copernicus course determined doctrine doubt earth effect existence existentialism existentialist experience fact faculty Faust feeling force Franz Kafka freedom give Goethe hand happiness heavens human ideas imagination individual John Stuart Mill kind knowledge laws of nature living man's mankind mathematics matter means ment MEPHISTO mind moral motion movement natural selection never object observed particular perceive perfect person philosophy physical planets possible present principle produce proletariat Ptolemaic system question rational reason regard relation religion scientific seems sense sentiment sexual selection social society species sphere Spirit stars suppose theory things Thou thought tion true truth understanding universe utilitarian virtue whole words