Lectures on the History of Ancient Philosophy, Volume 2Carter, 1879 - Philosophy, Ancient |
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absolute abstract Alexandria altogether ancient animal apprehend Arcesilaus Aristotle Aristotle's beauty body Carneades cause Christian Cicero conceived conception connection contemplation Cratylus Deity dialogue distinct divine doctrine endeavour essence eternal ethical existence faculty Heraclitus human soul ideal Ideal Theory ideas immortal intellect intelligence knowledge laws Lecture manifest matter ment metaphysical mind moral motion mysterious nature object observe opinion organ original Parmenides passage peculiar perceive perfect perhaps perpetually Phædo Phædrus philo Philolaus philosophy physical Plato Platonists Plotinus possess present principle Proclus pronounce Protagoras pure Pythagoras Pythagorean question racter rational element reality reason recognise regard relation scarcely seems sensation sense sensible Socrates soul speculation sphere spirit Stallbaum substance supposition Theaetetus theory things thought Timæus tion treatise true truth unity universe views virtue whole wisdom ἂν δὲ δὴ εἶναι ἐν καὶ κατὰ μὲν οὐκ περὶ τὰ τε τῆς τὸ τοῦ τῷ τῶν
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Page 113 - ... no unwarrantable form of phrase. Finally, that the reason, in proportion as it learns to contemplate the perfect and eternal, desires the enjoyment of such contemplations in a more consummate degree, and cannot be fully satisfied except in the actual fruition of the perfect itself: — this seems not to contradict any received principle of psychology, or any known law of human nature.
Page 197 - Systems in many respects resemble machines. A machine is a little system, created to perform, as well as to connect together, in reality, those different movements and effects which the artist has occasion for. A system is an imaginary machine invented to connect together in the fancy those different movements and effects which are already in reality performed.
Page 198 - The first systems, in the same manner, are always the most complex ; and a particular connecting chain or principle is generally thought necessary, to unite every two seemingly disjointed appearances ; but it often happens, that one great connecting principle is afterwards found to be sufficient to bind together all the discordant phenomena that occur in a whole species of things ! " This remark is strikingly applicable to the origin and progress of systems of astronomy.
Page 113 - Creator and from man, and that the whole mass of them may be fairly termed the world of things purely intelligible, is surely allowable. Nay, further, that there are qualities in the supreme and ultimate Cause of all, which are manifested in His creation, and not merely manifested, but, in a manner — after being brought out of His superessential nature into the stage of being below Him, but next to Him — are then, by the causative act of creation, deposited in things, differencing them one from...
Page 155 - Nec vero ille artifex, cum faceret lovis formam aut Minervae, contemplabatur aliquem, e quo similitudinem duceret, sed ipsius in mente insidebat species pulchritudinis eximia quaedam, quam intuens in eaque defixus ad illius similitudinem artem et manum dirigebat.
Page 43 - ... the Gospel. — For what else have many excellent members of our faith done? See we not how richly laden with gold and silver and apparel, that most persuasive teacher and most blessed martyr Cyprian departed out of Egypt? or Lactantius? or Victorinus, Optatus, Hilary, not to speak of the living? and Greeks innumerable? And this, Moses himself, that most faithful servant of God, first did, of whom it is written, that 'he was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians.
Page 113 - That the intelligence of man, excited to reflection by the impressions of these objects, thus (though themselves transitory) participant of a divine quality, should rise to higher conceptions of the perfections thus faintly exhibited; and inasmuch as these perfections are unquestionably real existences, and known to be such in the very act of contemplation — that this should be regarded as a direct intellectual apperception of them, a union of the reason with the ideas in that sphere of being which...
Page 43 - Gentiles not only hath feigned and superstitious devices, and heavy burdens of a useless toil, which we severally, as, under the leading of Christ, we go forth out of the fellowship of the Gentiles, ought to abhor and avoid, but it also containeth liberal arts, fitter for the service of truth, and some most useful moral precepts: as also there are found among them some truths concerning the worship of the One God Himself, as it were their gold and silver, which they did not themselves form, but drew...
Page 185 - ... speaking through a young and strong heart to the world. Very great was the influence of Plato in this period of wakening to thought. Nothing was known by experience of Nature, for little had been learnt since the time when Plato, theorising upon Nature, owned it to be impossible to arrive at any certain result in our speculations upon the creation of the visible universe and its authors; "wherefore...
Page 198 - The machines that are first invented to perform any particular movement are always the most complex, and succeeding artists generally discover that, with fewer wheels, with fewer principles of motion, than had originally been employed, the same effects may be more easily produced.