Certainly my morality and my moral philosophy are not the same thing; but a doctrine that precludes its professor from really adop...ting the morality it is meant to supply with philosophical credentials can hardly escape the charge of logical oddness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life... just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man's estate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You have both said well, And on the cause and question now in hand... Have glozed, but superficially--not much Unlike young men whom Aristotle thought Unfit to hear moral philosophy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Any moral philosophy is exceedingly rare. This of Menu addresses our privacy more than most. It is a more private and familiar, an...d at the same time, a more public and universal word, than is spoken in parlor or pulpit nowadays.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In literary representation, the distinction between the genuinely erotic and the licentious is a distinction not of subject-matter..., but of perspective. The genuinely erotic work is one which invites the reader to re-create in imagination the first-person point of view of someone party to an erotic encounter. The pornographic work retains as a rule the third-person perspective of the voyeuristic observer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a sim...ilar fate from the hand of Hume in 1737.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
From cradle to grave this problem of running order through chaos, direction through space, discipline through freedom, unity throu...gh multiplicity, has always been, and must always be, the task of education, as it is the moral of religion, philosophy, science, art, politics and economy; but a boy's will is his life, and he dies when it is broken, as the colt dies in harness, taking a new nature in becoming tame.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Surely the one thing needful for a Christian and an Englishman to study is Christian and moral and political philosophy, and then ...we should see our way a little more clearly without falling into Judaism, or Toryism, or Jacobinism, or any other ism whatever.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to con...tend.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »