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This introductory material provides biographical and contextual notes around early letters, describing Calvin’s education and recalling him to Noyon due to his father’s illness.
we can go over it at our leisure. Pray do not hesitate to write, both concerning that and the calling of the synod, at which our ministers will willingly attend. [*Lat. orig. autogr.*--*Library of Geneva.* Vol. 106.] [47] Peter Caroli, of Rosay in Brie, doctor of the Sorbonne, known by his disputes with Farel and with Calvin. His unsettled disposition, as well as interested motives, led him towards the work o…
Mill begins a section on moral influences in early youth, stating he will not detail everything but will give leading points essential for understanding how his early character formed.
MORAL INFLUENCES IN EARLY YOUTH. MY FATHER'S CHARACTER AND OPINIONS In my education, as in that of everyone, the moral influences, which are so much more important than all others, are also the most complicated, and the most difficult to specify with any approach to completeness. Without attempting the hopeless task of detailing the circumstances by which, in this respect, my early character may have been shaped, I …
He argues that even though early perceptions of promise-obligations come from limited experience of society, later a moral sentiment joins interest, while promises still impose no natural obligation.
whoever uses them is immediately bound by his interest to execute his engagements, and must never expect to be trusted any more, if he refuse to perform what he promised. Nor is that knowledge, which is requisite to make mankind sensible of this interest in the institution and observance of promises, to be esteemed superior to the capacity of human nature, however savage and uncultivated. There needs but a very litt…
Aristotle concludes that because music powerfully fascinates and moves the soul, it should be taught to youth, whose tastes are naturally drawn to agreeable things and who are suited to music.
From what has been said it is evident what an influence music has over the disposition of the mind, and how variously it can fascinate it: and if it can do this, most certainly it is what youth ought to be instructed in. And indeed the learning of music is particularly adapted to their disposition; for at their time of life they do not willingly attend to anything which is not agreeable; but music is naturally one of…
The index lists topics from Aristotle’s Politics, including education, government types, courts, cities, citizens, and named places and peoples, with cross-references to book and page numbers.
Actions, their original spring, i Administration, 76; whether to be shared by the whole community, 203 AEsumnetes, 96 AEthiopia, in what manner the power of the state is there regulated, 112 Alterations in government, whence they arise, 142; what they are, 143 Ambractia, the government of, changed, 151 Andromadas Reginus, a lawgiver to the Thracian Calcidians, 65 Animals, their different provisions…