It is the practical realisation of the dream formed by certain philosophers of our day, who were only able to conceive the idea, the possibility, the project of such a community of goods and interests, which is among ants a reality.
The captive insects take their wrongs with patience, and behave likephilosophers under this new kind of life.
Oh, philosophers may sing Of the troubles of a King, Yet the duties are delightful, and the privileges great; But the privilege and pleasure That we treasure beyond measure Is to run on little errands for the Ministers of State!
Oh, philosophers may sing Of the troubles of a King, But of pleasures there are many and of troubles there are none; And the culminating pleasure That we treasure beyond measure Is the gratifying feeling that our duty has been done!
It is equally natural that protests should be raised, and the extension proclaimed by philosophers to be illegitimate--"impoverishing faith without enriching knowledge.
This, however, broke up suddenly, for I found even philosophers were not calm in their examination of unpalatable facts.
The Grecian philosophers have had their lives written, their morals commended, and their sayings recorded.
This is an adaptation of tho old magic square, which amused the philosophers of old.
Mr. Bentham is very much among philosophers what La Fontaine was among poets:--in general habits and in all but his professional pursuits, he is a mere child.
Thus the clergy have come into much more friendly relations with the philosophers than in the middle of the century.
Their importance had been almost ignored by thinkers who relied entirely on individual experience, and greatly overrated by the Transcendentalists; but neither set of philosophers could explain these mysterious ideas.
There are a great many philosophers who know more about the motions of stars than these humbler operations of Nature.
I am only a plain sailor," said Willis "yet the eye of a worm teaches me more than these philosophers seem to have imagined in their philosophy.
I should think so, mother," replied Jack; "it would take no end of philosophers to do the work of one of you.
Philosophers have themselves believed in the doctrine of a future existence, and have died hoping to live again; and it cannot be denied that mankind generally have entertained an obscure expectation of a renewed being after death.
I perceive,' said Livia, 'if what you philosophers urge be true, that I am rather meant by nature for a Persian or a Roman throne than any other.
Philosophers have long ago taught that the only safe and happy life is a virtuous life.
Is it not necessary that truths relating to the soul and futurity should rest upon authority, if any or many beside philosophers are to embrace them?
If love is in truth a glorious vision, poetry will say that it is a glorious vision, and no philosophers will persuade poetry to say that it is the exaggeration of the instinct of sex.
It is not only true that the mediæval philosophers never discovered the steam-engine; it is quite equally true that they never tried.
If bereavement is a bitter and continually aching thing, poetry will say that it is so, and no philosophers will persuade poetry to say that it is an evolutionary stage of great biological value.
After some observations on the scenery and seats, Raymond said: "Philosophers have called man a microcosm of nature, and find a reflection in the internal mind for all this machinery visibly at work around us.
The English philosophers are practically unanimous in ascribing both conscience and Morality in general to a social source.
Philosophers who are by no means negligible have roundly replied in the negative.
According to him, therefore, Morality is a social and not an individual phenomenon; just as the moral philosophers of the theological school look upon it as the Will of God, so he considers it to be the Will of Society.
It must leave it to thephilosophers to continue the investigation.
A numerous group of moral philosophers seeks the aim of moral conduct in the individual himself, not outside him.
Morality occupies such a large place in civilization that the mistaken view has arisen among many moral philosophers that it is the aim of civilization and has no aim other than itself.
All these subjective moral philosophers tacitly assume with Rousseau that man is by nature good.
Among the moral philosophers the mystics are prevented, by the haze which obscures all their thought, from seeing that Morality originates from this joint responsibility.
And yet the philosophers are guilty of the same superficiality as the man in the street.
The profound deference in which she was held by all the philosophers is a further indication that from her they had derived many of their advanced ideas regarding the relations of the sexes.
These gifted women entered into intimate relations with the philosophers and rhetoricians of the day; they visited the lecture halls, devoted themselves to earnest study, and carried on their prostitution under the protection of philosophy.
They frequented the schools of rhetoricians and philosophers and the studios of artists, and sought in every way possible to make themselves interesting and indispensable to men.
Another allied and fundamental fallacy, into which all the philosophers and Rousseau had more or less fallen, was reflected and exposed by the Revolution.
And, apart from their narrower point of view, they differed from the philosophers in two very important points.
The philosophers of the Encyclopaedia did not go so far, but they tended in this direction.
When philosophers recognised the absurdity of the fables about the gods, but had not yet gained an insight into natural history, they thought to explain the causes of phenomena by abstract expressions such as essences and faculties.
During the FIRST period, up to the French Revolution, it had been treated rather casually; it was taken for granted and received no searching examination either from philosophers or from historians.
He appreciates the work of philosophers from Socrates to Leibnitz, and describes Rousseau as standing before the swelling stream, but cursing it.
The influence, direct and indirect, of these German philosophers reached far beyond the narrow circle of the bacchants or even the wandbearers of idealism.
Neither they nor the philosophers nor Rousseau, the father of modern democracy, had any just conception of what political liberty means.
In his religious ideas the Abbe differed from Voltaire and the later social philosophers in one important respect, but this very difference was a consequence of his utilitarianism.
But, if some relative progress might be admitted, the general view of Greek philosophers was that they were living in a period of inevitable degeneration and decay--inevitable because it was prescribed by the nature of the universe.
Thus, craftily, they prepare for our craving after causality a slumbrous pillow, in the manner of the philosophers who would refer the creation of the world to a supernatural principle.
None of the philosophers would establish a Web site, as none would be terribly excited about the discussion forums on the Internet-not a place for intellectual debate.
Such observations have prompted the opinion that scientists are becoming the most appropriate philosophers of their own contributions.
It is not unusual for philosophers to abandon the pattern of rehashing older theories and views, and to attempt to understand pragmatic exigencies and their reason.
Moreover, is it even possible without the participation of natural language, or at least without this intermediary between philosophers and their public?
At this juncture, philosophersrealized the practical aspect of the discipline.
Marx thought that it would empower people and help them change the world: "Until now philosophers interpreted the world; it's time to change it.
At present, philosophers have become memeticians, and examine computational simulations of Darwinian principles in order to see how ideas survive and advance.
In our day, it has become a discourse expressed, if not in painfully contorted language, in a multitude of specialized languages addressed to a relatively small circle of interested parties, themselves philosophers for the most part.
Present-day philosophers are eager to diagram the relation between work satisfaction and personality.
Deciphering the reason of things and actions-in other words, understanding the world and its apparent order (what the Greeks called eunomia)-made them simultaneously philosophers and interpreters of science.
There is to philosophic discourse an internal reason for its continuous unfolding: People constituting themselves as philosophers change as the world they live in changes.
The moral literate philosophers of the 19th century-Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Carlyle, William James-thought that the answer lay in our recognition that the world is not only for enjoyment.
If bishops carry the term off to one quarter, philosophers carry it to another.
It was to be governed by the three greatest philosophers of the age, assisted by a board of trade, a board of health, and a board of education.
Philosophers protest; but it will take some time yet before the justice of man is assimilated to the justice of God.
Hence the sad eye of the philosophers ever fixed upon that mountain of darkness which is destiny, and from the top of which the colossal spectre of evil casts handfuls of serpents over the earth.
Moreover he had observed that the ass, a four-legged thinker little understood by men, has a habit of cocking his ears uneasily when philosophers talk nonsense.
Philosophers are prone to gird at the animal in man, accusing it of dragging the soul down to the mire in which it wallows.
Philosophers in all ages have known and taught the power of music in compelling ten thousand to the love of one, and so ennobling an infinite multitude in the glow of a common emotion.
My writings, therefore, may appear light and trifling in our country of philosophers and politicians; but if they possess merit in the class of literature to which they belong, it is all to which I aspire in the work.
Surely the simple-souled artist may leave such matters for the philosophers and theologians to deal with.
He had a taste for reading, and had thus caught a glimmering of the enlightened liberalism which French philosophers were preaching.
Such was the outlook to one of the greatest political philosophers of modern times just eighty-two years before the immortal proclamation of President Lincoln!
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