Basic Problems of Philosophy: Selected ReadingsDaniel J. Bronstein, Yervant Hovhannes Krikorian, Philip Paul Wiener |
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... seems to depend more upon the people who pay it than upon the person to whom it is paid , and we have an intuitive feeling that the good is something which is proper to a man himself and cannot easily be taken away from him . It seems ...
... seems to depend more upon the people who pay it than upon the person to whom it is paid , and we have an intuitive feeling that the good is something which is proper to a man himself and cannot easily be taken away from him . It seems ...
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... seems to lie in his function , so it would seem to be with Man , if indeed he has a definite function . Can it be said then that , while a carpenter and a cobbler have definite functions and actions , Man , unlike them , is naturally ...
... seems to lie in his function , so it would seem to be with Man , if indeed he has a definite function . Can it be said then that , while a carpenter and a cobbler have definite functions and actions , Man , unlike them , is naturally ...
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... seems to me the queerest idol ever manufactured in the philosophic cave . Were we scholastic absolutists , there might be more excuse . If we had an infallible intellect with its objective certitudes , we might feel ourselves disloyal ...
... seems to me the queerest idol ever manufactured in the philosophic cave . Were we scholastic absolutists , there might be more excuse . If we had an infallible intellect with its objective certitudes , we might feel ourselves disloyal ...
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