A Critical History of Greek Philosophy
It means that he stultified himself by making his concep- tion of God absolutely contradict the essentials of his sys- tem. For ...
controls it. The latter supposition is excluded by the fact that God is not an existent conscious person, the former by its own ...
view of Plato and the Pythagoreans that {292} the elements are composed of geometrical figures. And connected with this is his r ...
state. The higher presupposes the lower and rests upon it as foundation. The higher is the form of which the lower is the matter ...
This gives us, too, the clue to the distinction between {296} the inorganic and the organic. If inorganic matter is what has its ...
showing what are the higher, and what the lower, animal organisms. This he connects with the {298} methods of propagation employ ...
a combined bundle of sensations. What thus combines the various sensations, and in {300} particular those received from differen ...
separable from it. You cannot have {302} a soul without a body. The connection between them is not mechanical, but organic. The ...
{304} We have traced the scale of being from inorganic matter, through plants and animals, to man. What then? What is the next s ...
Noting that this is not what Aristotle in so many words says, but that it is our interpretation of his {306} intention, which is ...
alone could give finality to such a scheme. But it is the principle itself which matters. And that it is one of the most valuabl ...
The modern doctrine of evolution can only render the world more intelligible, can only develop into a philosophy of evo- lution, ...
such a question. The word “why” means that we want a reason. And our question is absurd because we are asking a reason for reaso ...
all philosophical ideas, it grips none, and can hold nothing fast. It seizes its object, but its flabby grasp relaxes and slips ...
nature, every being has its proper end, and the attainment of this end is its special function. Hence the good for each being mu ...
they are to be controlled. Hence the ascetic ideal of root- ing out the passions altogether is fundamentally wrong. It overlooks ...
ness and bashfulness, temperance between insensibility and intemperance. Justice hardly comes into the scheme; it is rather a vi ...
not extend. Such then is the historical origin of the State. But it is of capital importance to understand that, in Aristotle’s ...
just discussed deny the reality of the whole, Plato’s view, on the contrary, denies the reality of the parts. For him the indivi ...
the Greek city-states. Aesthetics, or the Theory of Art. Plato had no systematic philosophy of Art, and his views had to be co ...
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