Basic Problems of Philosophy: Selected ReadingsDaniel J. Bronstein, Yervant Hovhannes Krikorian, Philip Paul Wiener |
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... desire happiness for its own sake and never as a means to something else , whereas we desire honour , pleasure , intellect , and every virtue , partly for their own sakes ( for we should desire them independently of what might result ...
... desire happiness for its own sake and never as a means to something else , whereas we desire honour , pleasure , intellect , and every virtue , partly for their own sakes ( for we should desire them independently of what might result ...
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... desire arises on the part of every one to keep down his fellows by every possible means , and he who at last comes off conqueror boasts more be- cause he has injured another person than because he has profited himself . This glory of ...
... desire arises on the part of every one to keep down his fellows by every possible means , and he who at last comes off conqueror boasts more be- cause he has injured another person than because he has profited himself . This glory of ...
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... desire that knits it . Delivered from the heavy fetters of desire , the eye , now calmer , attends to the form , the soul contemplates the soul , and the interested exchange of pleasure becomes a generous exchange of mutual inclination .
... desire that knits it . Delivered from the heavy fetters of desire , the eye , now calmer , attends to the form , the soul contemplates the soul , and the interested exchange of pleasure becomes a generous exchange of mutual inclination .
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absolute action aesthetic Alcetas Archelaus Aristotle attain axioms beauty become believe body bourgeois bourgeoisie called cause Cleanthes common conception consequences desire Dewey divine doctrine doubt effect ence epistemology eral essence ethical evil existence experience external fact fallibilism feeling freedom G. P. Putnam's Sons happiness Hegel human idea ideal imagination individual intellectual interest intuition JOHN DEWEY judgment kind knowledge liberty living logical Marxist matter means ment merely metaphysical method mind moral nature never nomic notion object observation opinion particular passions perceive perception person philosophy physical Plato pleasure political Polus possible present principle problem proletariat qualities question rational reality reason regard relation religion religious scientific scientific method sense simple social society Socrates soul spirit suppose tariat Theism theology theory things thought Thrasymachus tion true truth understanding universal whole words