Outlines of the History of Greek Philosophy

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Seite 51 - Hence the famous oppositions of this philosophical sect; namely (1) limited and unlimited; (2) even and odd; (3) one and many; (4) right and left; (5) male and female; (6) rest and motion; (7) straight and crooked; (8) light and darkness; (9) good and evil; (10) square and rectangle.
Seite 39 - The infinite mass of matter out of which all things arise, and into which they return by their destruction, in order to render to each other atonement and punishment for their offence against the order of time.
Seite 202 - But if that activity can only overcome the resistance of matter by degrees (see p. 1 92 ), the life of the soul is in itself very unequal in quality. The life of plants consists in nourishment and reproduction ; in animals we have the additional factor of sensible perception, and, in the great majority, of local movement; in man we go further and attain to thought. Hence Aristotle, partly in harmony with Plato (p. 154), assumes three kinds of souls, which when combined into one individual soul become...
Seite 51 - TEN FUNDAMENTAL LAWS Of •PPOSITER 1. Limited and Unlimited. 2. Odd and Even. 3. One and Many. 4. Right and Left 5. Masculine and Feminine. 6. Rest and Motion. 7.
Seite 149 - Laws,' x. 891 E If., ' Phileb.1 30 A f., ' Tim.' 30 A). The ' Timseus ' gives a description of the formation of the world-soul, in which, veiled amid much that is fantastic, the true meaning seems to be that the soul stands midway between ideas and the corporeal world, and unites both. It is incorporeal and ever the same, like ideas, but spread abroad through the world, and moving it by virtue of its own original motion. It includes in itself all the relations of number and measure ; it creates...
Seite 152 - But of these man only has an independent interest for Plato ; on plants and animals he merely bestows a few occasional remarks of no great importance. In the ' Timseus ' he enters into special detail about the human body; yet few of these physiological assumptions stand in any close connection with the Platonic philosophy. The soul of man is in its nature homogeneous with the soul of the universe, \ from which it springs (
Seite 125 - ... vel junior audi, Cur sit Aristippi potior sententia ; namque Mordacem Cynicum sic eludebat, ut aiunt : " Scurror ego ipse mihi, populo tu ; rectius hoc et Splendidius multo est. Equus ut me portet, alat rex, 20 Officium fació : tu poséis vilia reriim, Dante minor, quamvis fers te nullius egentem.
Seite 61 - It is indivisible, for it is that which it is, everywhere equally, and there is nothing by which it could be divided. It is unmoved, complete in itself, everywhere self-identical, and may be compared with a well-rounded sphere, spreading itself equally from the centre to all sides. Thought, moreover, is not distinct from being, for it is thought of the existent.
Seite 244 - It comes into being with the body in the physical mode of generation ; but the material is a part of the divine fire which descended into the bodies of men when they first arose out of the ether. This fire of the soul is nourished by the blood, and the governing part of the soul has its seat in the heart, the centre of the course of the blood...
Seite vii - Sketches of this kind will proceed on different lines according to the aim which is held in view. My object has been primarily to provide students with a help for academical lectures, which would facilitate preparation, and save the time wasted in writing down facts, without interfering with the lecturer's work or imposing any fetters upon it. Hence I have made it my task to give my readers a picture of the contents of the philosophical systems, and the course of their historical development, which...

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