The Meaning of Life: Insights of the World's Great ThinkersRodopi, 1994 - Всего страниц: 282 The book aims to present the wisdom of sages, great thinkers, renowned writers, and philosophers, of many countries and time periods, in their own words, regarding life. The book also aims to place the numerous quotations from these sources in a structured organization, with introductory and explanatory comments and comparisons. Main Topics or Fields - See Organization or Principal Parts. |
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... centuries , and across the borders , about life's very meaning . Philosophy as practiced in his work is always firmly connected with our humanity . Learning has value for our living . Gerber shares his learning about life with tolerance ...
... centuries , and across the borders , about life's very meaning . Philosophy as practiced in his work is always firmly connected with our humanity . Learning has value for our living . Gerber shares his learning about life with tolerance ...
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... centuries after the period of Plato and Aris- totle , the Roman philosopher - poet Lucretius ( first century before the common era ) said , in his poem On the Nature of Things , that the earth was the mother of life , thus agreeing with ...
... centuries after the period of Plato and Aris- totle , the Roman philosopher - poet Lucretius ( first century before the common era ) said , in his poem On the Nature of Things , that the earth was the mother of life , thus agreeing with ...
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... century of the common era , by the non - Christian Greek thinker Plotinus , a neo - Platonist , who lived in Rome but wrote in Greek . Plotinus argued ( a ) that fire , air , water , and earth are the only forms of matter , and ( b ) ...
... century of the common era , by the non - Christian Greek thinker Plotinus , a neo - Platonist , who lived in Rome but wrote in Greek . Plotinus argued ( a ) that fire , air , water , and earth are the only forms of matter , and ( b ) ...
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... Plotinus would apply this dictum - that life is for- mative activity - even to plants , since plants , in a way , form and shape themselves . Saint Thomas Aquinas ( Italy and France , thirteenth century LIFE IN GENERAL 7.
... Plotinus would apply this dictum - that life is for- mative activity - even to plants , since plants , in a way , form and shape themselves . Saint Thomas Aquinas ( Italy and France , thirteenth century LIFE IN GENERAL 7.
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... century , writing in Latin ) asserted , from another perspec- tive : ( 20 ) " [ A ] ll things are said to be alive that determine themselves to movement or operation of any kind . " Thus , as Aquinas would probably explain , not only do ...
... century , writing in Latin ) asserted , from another perspec- tive : ( 20 ) " [ A ] ll things are said to be alive that determine themselves to movement or operation of any kind . " Thus , as Aquinas would probably explain , not only do ...
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Part 2 | 71 |
Who Am I and What Am I? | 77 |
Is Will Defeated by Causality Fate | 109 |
Part 3 | 133 |
Is There Meaning in Our Lives? If | 153 |
How Do We March from Childhood to | 165 |
What Are the Basic Truths About Sex | 189 |
Civilization? | 219 |
How Should We Appraise Religious | 231 |
Source References | 249 |
Index of Authors and Anonymous | 279 |
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Стр. 48 - And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea ; into your hand are they delivered.
Стр. 228 - Earth has not anything to show more fair : Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers,, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
Стр. 166 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Стр. 34 - Gave thee life, and bid thee feed By the stream and o'er the mead; Gave thee clothing of delight, Softest clothing, woolly, bright; Gave thee such a tender voice, Making all the vales rejoice?
Стр. 35 - And what shoulder and what art Could twist the sinews of thy heart? And, when thy heart began to beat, What dread hand and what dread feet?
Стр. 167 - And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years : few and evil have the days of the years of my life been...
Стр. 177 - DEAR MADAM : I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming.
Стр. 32 - And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.