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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CHAPTER | 1 |
On the Improvement of the Understanding Benedict | 30 |
INTRODUCTION | 68 |
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