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Page 378
His zeal to prove that the soul is mortal is inspired by the wish to dispel all fear of future punishments , and so to liberate the mind for the calm and tepid enjoyment of this world . There is something to be gained in this direction ...
His zeal to prove that the soul is mortal is inspired by the wish to dispel all fear of future punishments , and so to liberate the mind for the calm and tepid enjoyment of this world . There is something to be gained in this direction ...
Page 381
If you fear it , you fear a word . To all this , perhaps , Memmius , or some other recalcitrant reader , might retort that what he shrank from was not the metaphysical state of being dead , but the very real agony of dying .
If you fear it , you fear a word . To all this , perhaps , Memmius , or some other recalcitrant reader , might retort that what he shrank from was not the metaphysical state of being dead , but the very real agony of dying .
Page 499
If there is any one feeling or attribute more natural than all others to human beings it is fear ; and no greater proof can be given of the power of artificial discipline than the conquest which it has at all times and places shown ...
If there is any one feeling or attribute more natural than all others to human beings it is fear ; and no greater proof can be given of the power of artificial discipline than the conquest which it has at all times and places shown ...
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| Title | Gateway to the Great Books: Philosophical essays Volume 10 of Gateway to the Great Books, Robert Maynard Hutchins |
| Editors | Robert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler |
| Publisher | Encyclopędia Britannica, 1963 |
| Length | 644 pages |
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