Pessimism: A History and a CriticismH.S. King, 1877 - 477 pagini |
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... human character - Love the manifestation of the will of the species - The will to live - The source of life's misery - Pleasure a negation - The world's evil incurable- Momentary deliverances of Art —- Affirmation of will to live ...
... human character - Love the manifestation of the will of the species - The will to live - The source of life's misery - Pleasure a negation - The world's evil incurable- Momentary deliverances of Art —- Affirmation of will to live ...
Pagina xii
... human feelings and tastes ? -Influences determining action in certain lives antecedently to individual choice - How ... human powers - Pleasure - value of the fixed arrangements of the world , only roughly ascertainable - Vital question ...
... human feelings and tastes ? -Influences determining action in certain lives antecedently to individual choice - How ... human powers - Pleasure - value of the fixed arrangements of the world , only roughly ascertainable - Vital question ...
Pagina xiii
... human development in the past - Its future duration - Speculation on the total worth of world as measured by human life 357 CHAPTER XIV . THE SOURCES OF PESSIMISM . Résumé of argument - Meliorism - Its fitness to incite effort ...
... human development in the past - Its future duration - Speculation on the total worth of world as measured by human life 357 CHAPTER XIV . THE SOURCES OF PESSIMISM . Résumé of argument - Meliorism - Its fitness to incite effort ...
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... human life a decided worth , representing it as something good , beautiful , or pleasant , will be included under ... human nature , under its moral or æsthetic aspect , the object of his depreciation ; or , again , his pessimism may ...
... human life a decided worth , representing it as something good , beautiful , or pleasant , will be included under ... human nature , under its moral or æsthetic aspect , the object of his depreciation ; or , again , his pessimism may ...
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... Human life presents numerous divisions and aspects , each of which may become the subject of a hopeful or a despondent view . Differences of intellectual development , too , lead to differ- ences in the extent of object comprehended in ...
... Human life presents numerous divisions and aspects , each of which may become the subject of a hopeful or a despondent view . Differences of intellectual development , too , lead to differ- ences in the extent of object comprehended in ...
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action active impulse æsthetic affirmation appears arises attainment balance of happiness belief bodily character civilisation conceive conception consciousness desire distinctly doctrine doubt effect element emotional enjoyment evanescence evil example existence experience external fact factor favourable feeling force G. H. Lewes gratification hedonism hedonist Hegel human idea of happiness ideal imagination individual influence instinctive intellectual intelligence intensity involves J. S. Mill life's limits mankind means ment mental mental events metaphysical mind misery mode moral natural selection nervous noumenon object Omar Khayyám optimism and pessimism optimistic organic pessimist philosophy physical pleasure and pain positive possible present principle progress pursuit question realised reality reason recognised reflection relation representation result satisfaction Schopen Schopenhauer's scientific seek seems sensation sense social sources speak subjective idealism supposed temperament theory things thought tion truth Uncon unconscious unconscious mind volition whole wholly wise worth writers
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Pagina 17 - For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts ; even one thing befalleth them : as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath ; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast : for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Pagina 20 - STEVENSON (Rev. WF). Hymns for the Church and Home. Selected and Edited by the Rev. W. Fleming Stevenson. The most complete Hymn Book published. The Hymn Book consists of Three Parts : — I.
Pagina 321 - Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, Before we too into the Dust descend; Dust into Dust, and under Dust, to lie, Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and— sans End! Alike for those who for TODAY prepare, And those that after some TOMORROW stare, A Muezzin from the Tower of Darkness cries, 'Fools, your Reward is neither Here nor There.
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Pagina 16 - Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good: Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.
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Pagina 24 - Count o'er the joys thine hours have seen, Count o'er thy days from anguish free, And know, whatever thou hast been, 'Tis something better not to be.
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