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Introduction to the Study of Philosophy William Torrey Harris,Marietta Kies No preview available - 2015 |
INTRO TO THE STUDY OF PHILOSOP William Torrey 1835-1909 Harris,Marietta 1853-1899 Ed Kies No preview available - 2016 |
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absolute activity æsthetic agnosticism animal Apollo Belvedere Aristotle beautiful becomes biped body causa sui causality cause Church conceive conception conscious deed dependent discovers divine divine grace doctrine elements energy environment existence experience fact feeling finite force freedom Goethe grace hence Herbert Spencer higher human idea ideal immortal independent individual infinite inorganic insight intellect introspection ject Last Judgment ligion limited logical condition manifestation ment middle term mind nature object organic pantheism particular passivity perceives perception perfect Person phases philosophy plant possible presupposes presupposition principle psychology realization reason recognize reflection relation religion reproduces second figure second stage self-activity self-determination self-existence self-relation sense sense-perception sensuous soul space species spiritual stage of knowing stage of thinking stage of thought steeple syllogism symbolic art teleology theism things third figure tion totality tree true unity universal vidual whole
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Page 254 - You would be, sweet madam, if your miseries were in the same abundance as your good fortunes are: And yet, for aught I see, they are as sick, that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing...
Page 230 - THROUGH me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric moved: To rear me was the task of power divine, 5 Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.* Before me things create were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.
Page v - Philosophy as presented by Dr. Harris gives to the student an interpretation and explanation of the phases of existence which render even the ordinary affairs of life in accordance with reason ; and for the higher or spiritual phases of life his interpretations have the power of a great illumination.
Page 128 - We can not conceive any new existence to commence ; therefore all that now is seen to arise under a new appearance had previously an existence under a prior form.
Page 230 - Whatever deed a man shall do must be seen in the entire per21 epective of its effects to exhibit its relation to the doer. The inferno is filled with those whose acts and habits of life surround them with an atmosphere of torture. " One does not predict that such punishment of each individual is eternal, but one thing is certain — that with the sins there punished there is special torture eternally connected.
Page 212 - ... greatest activity there is considerate purpose and perfect self-control manifested. The repose is of the soul, and not a physical repose. Even sitting and reclining figures — for example, the Theseus from the Parthenon, the torso of the Belvedere — are filled with activity, so that the repose is one of voluntary self-restraint and not the repose of the absence of vital energy. They are gracefulness itself.
Page 194 - ... feeling of ease in his body. The soul is at ease in the body only when it is using it as a means of expression or action. Harmony is this agreement of the inner and outer, of the will and the body, of the idea and its expression, so that the external leads us directly to the internal of which it is the expression. Gracefulness then results, and gracefulness is the characteristic of classic or Greek art. Not only its statues, but its architecture and architectural ornament, exhibit gracefulness...
Page 250 - To do, or produce these things is to do or produce what is internally contradictory and self-nugatory, and what consequently reduces itself to a zero. Such < use of self-activity fails to develop it ; its endeavors do not build up anything ; all its products are negative, and it is left in the end where it started — at the bottom of the ladder of human culture. But whereas it started at first with butterfly wings and mounting hopes, it now after its wrong efforts sits down in despair with an ever-gnawing...
Page 209 - But opposed to this oriental idea, the Greek religion made beauty the essential feature of the idea of the divine, and hence his art is created as an act of worship of the beautiful. It represents the supreme attainment of the world in pure beauty, because it is pure beauty and nothing beyond. Christianity reaches beyond beauty to holiness. Other heathen religions fall short of the Greek...