A Short History of Greek PhilosophyPercival and Company, 1891 - Всего страниц: 253 |
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absolute abstract aether analogy Anaxagoras Anaximander animals answer Antisthenes apprehension Aristippus Aristotle Aristotle's Athenian Athens atoms attain beauty bodily body called cause character conceived conception Cyrenaics death definition Democritus desire dialogues divine doctrine earth Eleatic Eleatic school elements Empedocles entelechy Epicureanism Epicurus eternal Euthydemus evil existence fact fire function Greece Greek hand happiness Heraclitus human ideal ideas imagined immortal individual infinite justice knowable knowledge living creatures logical Lucretius matter Melissus Miletus mind moral motion mystery native nature objects observation pain Parmenides perception perfect phenomena philosophy physics Plato pleasure political predication principle Protagoras Pythagoras Pythagoreans question realisation reality reason regarded relation seems sensation sense Socrates Sophists soul space Stoic succession supposed teachers teaching Thales theory things thou thought tion true truly truth union unity universe virtue vision whole wisdom wise words Xenocrates Xenophanes Zeno
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Стр. 41 - Thou wilt not leave us in the dust: Thou madest man, he knows not why, — He thinks he was not made to die; And thou hast made him : thou art just.
Стр. 237 - tis not to come ; if it be not to come, it will be now ; if it be not now, yet it will come ; the readiness is all ; since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is't to leave betimes?
Стр. 141 - ... the true order of going or being led by another to the things of love, is to use the beauties of earth as steps along which he mounts upwards for the sake of that other beauty, going from one to two, and from two to all fair forms, and from fair forms to fair practices, and from fair practices to fair notions, until from fair notions he arrives at the notion of absolute beauty, and at last knows what the essence of beauty is.
Стр. 140 - And when he perceives this he will abate his violent love of the one, which he will despise and deem a small thing, and will become a lover of all beautiful forms...
Стр. 142 - Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may. Would that be an ignoble life?
Стр. 141 - ... a trifle; and after laws and institutions he will go on to the sciences, that he may see their beauty, being not like a servant in love with the beauty of one youth or man or institution, himself a slave mean and narrow-minded, but drawing towards and contemplating the vast sea of beauty, he will create many fair and noble thoughts and notions in boundless love of wisdom; until on that shore he grows and waxes strong, and at last the vision is revealed to him of a single science, which is the...
Стр. 142 - But what if man had eyes to see the true beauty - the divine beauty, I mean, pure and clear and unalloyed, not clogged with the pollutions of mortality and all the colours and vanities of human life - thither looking, and holding converse with the true beauty simple and divine?
Стр. 141 - Socrates," said the stranger of Mantineia, "is that life above all others which man should live, in the contemplation of beauty absolute; a beauty which if you once beheld, you would see not to be after the measure of gold, and garments, and fair boys and youths...
Стр. 141 - ... drawing towards and contemplating the vast sea of beauty, he will create many fair and noble thoughts and notions in boundless love of wisdom; until on that shore he grows and waxes strong, and at last the vision is revealed to him of a single science, which is the science of beauty everywhere. To this I will proceed; please to give me your very best attention: "He who has been instructed thus far in the things of love, and who has learned to see the beautiful in due order and succession, when...