A History of Western Philosophy
far as he is aware of them, do not move him emotionally; he holds them, intellectually, to be an evil, but there is no evidence ...
not even the faintest awareness of the complete transformation that he was effecting in the world. The whole discussion is conce ...
sufficing. The State, though later in time than the family, is prior to it, and even to the individual, by nature; for "what eac ...
Next comes a discussion of trade, which profoundly influenced scholastic casuistry. There are two uses of a thing, one proper, t ...
interest was essential. Consequently first Calvin, and then other Protestant divines, sanctioned interest. At last the Catholic ...
they are impossible. Finally we are told that, if Plato's plans were good, someone would have thought of them sooner. * I do not ...
and polity, in addition to the ethical difference in the government, for what Aristotle calls "polity" retains some oligarchic e ...
be an enemy to the people, and will devise all the harm against them which I can." Now-a-days, reactionaries are not so frank. T ...
He must sow quarrels, and impoverish his subjects. He should keep them occupied in great works, as the king of Egypt did in gett ...
(1330a). Northern races, we are told, are spirited; southern races, intelligent; therefore slaves should be of southern races, s ...
victors as boys are hardly ever victors as men. Children should learn drawing, in order to appreciate the beauty of the human fo ...
trialism, with a scientific technique very different from traditional culture. A third cause was popular education, which confer ...
Aristotle's most important work in logic is the doctrine of the syllogism. A syllogism is an argument consisting of three parts, ...
(1) Formal defects within the system itself. (2) Over-estimation of the syllogism, as compared to other forms of deductive argum ...
they are merely verbal: "all Greeks are men" is known because nothing is called "a Greek" unless it is a man. Such general state ...
fore a horse's head is an animal's head." Valid syllogisms, in fact, are only some among valid deductions, and have no logical p ...
to understand. I do not myself believe that the term "category" is in any way useful in philosophy, as representing any clear id ...
"essence" is one as to the use of words. We apply the same name, on different occasions, to somewhat different occurrences, whic ...
are supposed to hang. They have in fact no need of a hook, any more than the earth needs an elephant to rest upon. Any one can s ...
because its wings are those of a bird possessing magical powers. Animals have lost their importance in our imaginative pictures ...
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