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Often appears with: reason and the intellect · justice as a virtue · wishing vs benefit · universality of beauty · the problem of evil and theodicy · supreme good omnipotence · spirits and ghosts · species, variation, and descent · socrates on philosophy and rule · sensualism · rhetoric and persuasion · pleasure, pain, and the good life
Usually: argument (5) · detachment (4) · censure (3) · commentary or gloss (2) · skepticism (2) · curiosity (1) · irony (1)
“he called Aristotle a river of flowing gold, and said of Plato's Dialogues, that if Jupiter were to speak, it would be in language like theirs.” Plutarch, Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans · vivid
“I think,” assumes that I COMPARE my state at the present moment with other states of myself which I know, in order to determine what it is; on account of this retrospective connection with further 'knowledge,' it has, at any rate, no immediate certainty for me.” Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil · insight
The narrative criticizes Cicero’s habit of praising himself excessively while also noting his generosity toward others and recounting anecdotes about his sharp wit and rhetorical tactics, including compliments and insults toward figures like Crassus.
declared the Father of his Country, which title he seems to have obtained, the first man who did so, when Cato gave it him in this address to the people. At this time, therefore, his authority was very great in the city; but he created himself much envy, and offended very many, not by any evil action, but because he was always lauding and magnifying himself. For neither senate, nor assembly of the people, nor court…
Nietzsche argues that sensory-based “natural philosophy” explains only what can be seen and felt, not the world itself, contrasting popular sensualism and the Platonic aristocratic resistance to sense evidence.
to me that this is a complete REDUCTIO AD ABSURDUM, if the conception CAUSA SUI is something fundamentally absurd. Consequently, the external world is NOT the work of our organs--? 16. There are still harmless self-observers who believe that there are "immediate certainties"; for instance, "I think," or as the superstition of Schopenhauer puts it, "I will"; as though cognition here got hold of its object purely and …
Hegel says Plato saw the gulf between religion and politics and that philosophy’s task is to grasp eternal righteousness, citing Plato’s idea that philosophy must coincide with political power.
is indeed the height and profanity of contradiction to seek to bind and subject to the secular code the religious conscience to which mere human law is a thing profane. The perception had dawned upon Plato with great clearness of the gulf which in his day had commenced to divide the established religion and the political constitution, on one hand, from those deeper requirements which, on the other hand, were made up…
Bosanquet explains that the “other world” of philosophy is not a ghostly double of reality; Hegel speaks about real achievements of mind, and interpretation must distinguish distinctions inside known life from unreachable beyonds.
3. [The Interest or End of Art (79-106) (*a*) Imitation of Nature? 79 ([Greek: a]) Mere Repetition of Nature is-- 79 ([Greek: aa]) Superfluous 80 ([Greek: bb]) Imperfect 80 ([Greek: gg]) Amusing merely as Sleight of Hand 82 ([Greek: b]…
He distinguishes scholarly, historically grounded reflection on art from purely theoretical attempts to derive beauty from itself, tracing the universalist demand back to Plato.
of the beautiful, but we ought not to abide by the fashion of Platonic ideas, which was purely abstract, and was the mere beginning of the philosophic study of beauty. 3. The philosophic conception of the beautiful, to indicate its true nature at least by anticipation, must contain, reconciled within it, the two extremes which have been mentioned, by combining metaphysical universality with the determinateness of re…
Seneca develops the theory that wishing alone is insufficient for a benefit, and that a benefit requires intentional good and effective action; he uses the example of sending slaves to find Plato to show goodwill alone matters most.
he did for me. It will become his duty to be grateful to me; I shall have begun the interchange of benefits; the series must be counted from my act. XII. I already understand what you wish to ask; there is no need for you to say anything, your countenance speaks for you. "If any one does us good for his own sake, are we," you ask, "under an obligation to him? I often hear you complain that there are some things whic…
Philosophy insists that vice shows weakness because evil cannot achieve the good’s end; thus the wicked ‘cease to be’ in an absolute sense, since their ability is merely impotent evil-doing.
'Nay; rather, one further consequence is clear to me: for from my admissions it must needs follow that the good have power, and the bad are impotent.' 'Thou anticipatest rightly, and that as physicians reckon is a sign that nature is set working, and is throwing off the disease. But, since I see thee so ready at understanding, I will heap proof on proof. Look how manifest is the extremity of vicious men's weakness; …