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Page 432
... true ; only the intelligent man can ( logically ) be free , and only the free man can ( logically ) be intelligent . But human beings , as finite modes , cannot in principle be completely free and unaffected by external causes ; human ...
... true ; only the intelligent man can ( logically ) be free , and only the free man can ( logically ) be intelligent . But human beings , as finite modes , cannot in principle be completely free and unaffected by external causes ; human ...
Page 445
... true causes of our pleasures and pains . The free and wise man therefore feels morally and emotionally neutral towards the particular things and persons around him , both because he understands why they are what they are and why they ...
... true causes of our pleasures and pains . The free and wise man therefore feels morally and emotionally neutral towards the particular things and persons around him , both because he understands why they are what they are and why they ...
Page 454
... true of that , is not true of anything else he has written . " What Johnson is really testifying to here is the degree in which the Tale of a Tub is characteristic and presents the qualities of Swift's genius in concentrated form ...
... true of that , is not true of anything else he has written . " What Johnson is really testifying to here is the degree in which the Tale of a Tub is characteristic and presents the qualities of Swift's genius in concentrated form ...
Contents
HOMER The Iliad or The Poem of Force | 3 |
AESCHYLUS Introduction to the Oresteia | 51 |
Sophocles | 78 |
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