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... seems more related to practical reason , Aristotle's prudence , than to wisdom . As an insight it is , no more than Plato's , initially or primarily or exclusively , ethical . But it does not seem to be primarily metaphyical , as ...
... seems more related to practical reason , Aristotle's prudence , than to wisdom . As an insight it is , no more than Plato's , initially or primarily or exclusively , ethical . But it does not seem to be primarily metaphyical , as ...
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... seems to satisfie Lawful desires of Nature , not beyond . It was traditional that in a natural desire , as the desire for eating , man could go wrong without the agency of the devil ; so Satan seems to be surrendering that possibility ...
... seems to satisfie Lawful desires of Nature , not beyond . It was traditional that in a natural desire , as the desire for eating , man could go wrong without the agency of the devil ; so Satan seems to be surrendering that possibility ...
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... seems to deny ( falsely ) the essential role of the mind ; and seems to create a distorting , belated emphasis on the necessary role of the feeling self in the history of Samson's tragic redemption ; but asserts a com- plicated ...
... seems to deny ( falsely ) the essential role of the mind ; and seems to create a distorting , belated emphasis on the necessary role of the feeling self in the history of Samson's tragic redemption ; but asserts a com- plicated ...
Contents
SOME PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS | 3 |
THE VIRTUES | 17 |
PREPARATIONS AND THE FIRST ENCOUNTER | 36 |
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