The practical point for us here is that in the only school dealing with the philosophy of human thought, the sources of the new science that has made a new world are practically ignored.
This I quote from a Report to the Board of the Faculty of Arts made just before the war on a proposed new Honour School, the subject of which should be the principles of philosophy considered in their relation to the sciences.
Whether such love may develop in a civilization based on a philosophy of force is the present problem of the Western world.
Yes; but all those sighs are mere vanities for you; you do not share human weaknesses; your mind has for ever renounced matrimony, and philosophy has all your love.
I give you notice that his philosophy aims only at your wealth, and that you would do well not to conclude this marriage before you have seen the poem which I am composing against him.
Truly, Sir, I am delighted to hear you; and I had no idea that philosophy was so capable of teaching men to bear such accidents with constancy.
They seemed to stalk naked and unashamed before the eyes of the one man who never gave a definite opinion, and who never asserted his own theories or urged his own philosophy of life.
The conflict with scholastic philosophy and religious fanaticism was not indeed over; yet Shakespeare came at a precious moment of mental freedom, after the struggle with Popery, and before that with the Puritans.
His discourse in reconciling Claudio to the quick approach of death condenses the marrow of all that philosophy and divinity can urge, to wean us mortals from the "many deceiving promises of life.
And so I suppose a just Philosophy of Art is bound to reckon it.
Seeing that most of them are tainted with false philosophy and rationalism, it must lead to the elimination from the sacred writings of all prophecy and all miracle, and of everything else that lies outside the natural order.
The best preparation will be a conscientious application to philosophy and theology under the guidance of St. Thomas of Aquin, and a thorough training therein--as We Ourselves have elsewhere shown and prescribed.
It goes down to the root of almost every great subject in philosophy and religion.
But even for his knowledge of the Scholastic philosophy he was the most eminent man in the University, and he was as familiar with the writings of Saint Augustine and Jerome as with those of Aristotle.
Hence the Scholastic Philosophy did not advance knowledge, since it did not seek the acquisition of new truths, but only the establishment of the old.
The study of Greek philosophy gave a new stimulus to human inquiry, and students flocked to the universities.
But philosophy and theology, under the teaching of the Scholastic doctors (Doctores Scholastici), taxed severely the intellectual powers.
No system of philosophy can be built up when words have no definite meaning.
With the Crusades arose a new spirit, which gave an impulse to philosophy as well as to art and enterprise.
The Scholastic philosophysent forth such daring thinkers as Erigena and Abelard.
The Organum (philosophy of first principles) of Aristotle was first publicly taught in 1215.
It was from Constantinople that Europe received the philosophy of Plato and Aristotle, in the language in which it was written, instead of translations through the Arabic.
He went even further than this: he attempted to harmonize philosophy with religion, as Abelard did afterwards.
Great things have happened in Germany since that time: a literature has sprung up almost without parallel for depth, and richness, and originality; and schools of poetry and philosophy various as those of Athens.
At this point we pause to recall our debt to the physical philosophy which underlies the calculations of the modern engineer.
Nietzsche had begun as a disciple of Schopenhauer and a friend of Wagner, and he ultimately became the champion of an individualistic and optimistic philosophy which formed the sharpest possible contrast to mid-century pessimism.
Under the influence of Kant, Schiller turned from the study of history to that of philosophy and more especially aesthetics.
At the age of twenty he took the vows of the Benedictine order at the abbey of Ste Melaine, Rennes, and afterwards taught rhetoric and philosophy in several monasteries.
In 1744 he was ordained priest, and immediately afterwards appointed professor, first of philosophy and later of theology.
The last chapter of the part published during the author's lifetime ends with the revival of letters and the philosophy of the 15th century.
Returning to the "Century of Inventions," we find it to be a journal of the fruits of its noble author's study of mechanical philosophy for nearly forty years, so that in it we may almost trace the youth and age of his mental capacity.
At my own ignorance, sir;--for I understand neither the philosophynor the morality of your doctrine.
Vive la Bagatelle is thephilosophy of our family,--ha?
Our teacher was a scholar of philosophy with the rarest gift of sinking himself emotionally, as well as with intellect, into the metaphysical system of the philosopher he studied.
And we, to whom these were like hours of prayer, We whispered things not all philosophy When he was gone.
And not only was his art exquisite, but his philosophy of his art was as unique, assertive, and prodigious in contempt for his predecessors, as that of Walt Whitman.
I have never read anything about any art more sheer and startling in its kind, than Poe's essay on "The Philosophy of Composition"; and nothing more energetically opposite to Walt Whitman could possibly be devised.
At the present moment sad thoughts possess me, and I have not your philosophy to combat them.
Mengy" was a doctor of philosophy in general, and lecturer on mummies in particular.
In five minutes, thanks to the rector, I had changed from a quondam coal passer to a would-be Doctor of Philosophy in the great Friedrich Wilhelm Universitat, a royal institution.
The San Francisco Bulletin says: "It is a classic that for pleasant philosophy and a sound defence of amiable mendacity stands alone in the literature of sport.
All of us nations in Europe, without one exception, have shown our philosophy in that way at times.
The word appears frequently in descriptions of battles, the Anglo-Saxon fatalistic philosophy teaching that, certain warriors entered the conflict faege, "doomed.
Yet I am not at all sure that it has not a real basis in philosophy as well as in nature.
A new and far- reaching philosophy is gradually displacing the old.
No, and they are but little initiated in the saner mechanism of philosophy who refused to recognize the truths established on evidence so strong and so authentic.
After this we find him at Lyons, at first pursuing studies in philosophy in preparation for his baccalaureate degree, evidently with the idea of eventually entering the university.
He was interested in music, philosophy and the drama, and well illustrates what Dr.
Spinoza himself describes his own philosophy as in substance the same with that of the ancient Hebrew Doctors, the Cabalists--only unswathed from the Biblical dress.
Athens, and philosophy from Academus and the Painted Porch, but must refer to an established and continuing seat of worship, 'a house of the God of Jacob'.
Indeed Monge himself, who conceived the true philosophy of the arts better than any one else, endeavoured to sketch out a corresponding system for the mechanical arts.
It is a suggestion which I submit to the geometers who have turned their thoughts towards the general philosophy of analysis.
There is no conception, in the whole philosophyof mathematics which better deserves to fix all our attention.
It was the end of a war for which Germany had prepared for generations, a war bred of a philosophy that Might can take its toll of earth's possessions, of human lives and liberties, when and where it will.
Upon this philosophy fifty thousand young men of the warring nations went forth to do battle among the clouds.
That philosophy involved the cession to imperial Germany of the best years of young German manhood, the training of German youths to be killers of men.
The philosophy of his conversations is selfish and worldly-wise to a degree, with nowhere the slightest suggestion of ideality or altruism.
How closely this last passage resembles the philosophy of Parolles, after his disgrace, in Act IV.
The sententious philosophy of life that endeared Euripides to the compilers of commonplace-books was expressed by Sophocles also, with sufficient independence of the context to make his speeches valuable as quarries for quotation.
Indestructible Elements in the Philosophyof Nature.
Not only had public interest declined, but the first fervor for philosophy was past.
If we were to judge by the fragments transmitted to us, we should have to say that Menander's comedy was ethical philosophy in verse; so mature is their wisdom, so weighty their language, and so grave their tone.
It is certain that well-constructed plots, profound analysis of character, refined humor, and ripe philosophy were blent and subordinated to the harmony of beauty by Menander.
The ingenuity of the deipnosophist was shown in bringing his reading to bear upon a single point, and in adorning the philosophy of the kitchen with purple patches torn from poetry.
Enough has been already said while dealing with the dramatists about the profound morality and the stern philosophy of the Greek tragic poets.
To this had philosophy fallen in the death of Greece.
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