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The Stoic philosopher as presented by Epictetus has many of the characteristics of the saint : he is ascetic , disciplined in will , resigned to whatever may befall him , fond of meditating on death , yet com- passionate of others whom ...
The Stoic philosopher as presented by Epictetus has many of the characteristics of the saint : he is ascetic , disciplined in will , resigned to whatever may befall him , fond of meditating on death , yet com- passionate of others whom ...
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Thus you too will be at one time a wrestler , and another a gladiator ; now a philosopher , now an orator ; but nothing in earnest . Like an ape you mimic all you see , and one thing after another is sure to please you , but is out of ...
Thus you too will be at one time a wrestler , and another a gladiator ; now a philosopher , now an orator ; but nothing in earnest . Like an ape you mimic all you see , and one thing after another is sure to please you , but is out of ...
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But was Goethe a philosopher ? And is Faust a philosophical poem ? If we say so , it must be by giving a certain latitude to our terms . Goethe was the wisest of mankind ; too wise , perhaps , to be a philosopher in the technical sense ...
But was Goethe a philosopher ? And is Faust a philosophical poem ? If we say so , it must be by giving a certain latitude to our terms . Goethe was the wisest of mankind ; too wise , perhaps , to be a philosopher in the technical sense ...
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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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