Literary Criticism: A Short History. Classical and neo-classical criticism, Volume 1University of Chicago P., 1978 - 336 pages |
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Page 248
... reason , —and even reason can scarcely operate without the intervention of lan- guage is there anything more important to man , more peculiar to him , or more inseparable from his nature than speech ? Nature indeed could not have ...
... reason , —and even reason can scarcely operate without the intervention of lan- guage is there anything more important to man , more peculiar to him , or more inseparable from his nature than speech ? Nature indeed could not have ...
Page 249
... reason , anti - rational . Reason is an imperfect way of getting at a thing : it implies a special approach , it produces understanding only under cer- tain conditions , and those things which are not amenable to these conditions simply ...
... reason , anti - rational . Reason is an imperfect way of getting at a thing : it implies a special approach , it produces understanding only under cer- tain conditions , and those things which are not amenable to these conditions simply ...
Page 292
... reason ; only at the dictation of reason are we able to perform any action , which we know for certain to be good ; thus , in a man who lives under the influence of reason , pity in itself is useless and bad . ' On the other hand , the ...
... reason ; only at the dictation of reason are we able to perform any action , which we know for certain to be good ; thus , in a man who lives under the influence of reason , pity in itself is useless and bad . ' On the other hand , the ...
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Socrates and the Rhapsode PAGE | 3 |
The Internal Focus 555 | 16 |
Poetry as Structure | 21 |
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