A Short History of Greek PhilosophyPercival and Company, 1891 - 253 pages |
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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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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 139 - They are ready to run all risks greater far than they would have run for their children, and to spend money and undergo any sort of toil, and even to die, for the sake of leaving behind them a name which shall be eternal.
Page 141 - ... 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...
Page 122 - Help us to show the fruits of the spirit; love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness and temperance.
Page 141 - ... 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. This, my dear Socrates...
Page 141 - 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 he comes towards the end will suddenly perceive a nature of wondrous beauty...
Page 141 - And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth and mount upwards for the sake of that other beauty, using these as steps only, and from one going on 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...
Page 139 - Those who are pregnant in the body only, betake themselves to women and beget children— this is the character of their love; their offspring, as they hope, will preserve their memory and give them the blessedness and immortality which they desire in the future. But...
Page 139 - Do you imagine that Alcestis would have died to save Admetus, or Achilles to avenge Patroclus, or your own Codrus in order to preserve the kingdom for his sons, if they had not imagined that the memory of their virtues, which still survives among us, would be immortal? Nay...