The Ethics of Aristotle, 第 1 卷

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第 383 頁 - Morality admits no discoveries More than three thousand years have elapsed since the composition of the Pentateuch ; and let any man, if he is able, tell me in what important respect the rule of life has varied since that distant period. Let the Institutes of Menu be explored with the same view ; we shall arrive at the same conclusion.
第 187 頁 - But I do say that, inasmuch as the soul is shown to be immortal, he may venture to think not improperly or unworthily, that something of the kind is true.
第 184 頁 - ... hurtful and useless. Did you never observe the narrow intelligence flashing from the keen eye of a clever rogue— how eager he is, how clearly his paltry soul sees the way to his end; he is the reverse of blind, but his keen eyesight is forced into the service of evil, and he is mischievous in proportion to his cleverness?
第 391 頁 - For the essence of humanism is that belief of which he seems never to have doubted, that nothing which has ever interested living men and women can wholly lose its vitality — no language they have spoken, nor oracle beside which they have hushed their voices, no dream which has once been entertained by actual human minds, nothing about which they have ever been passionate, or expended time and zeal.
第 184 頁 - ... of their youth; and they had been severed from the leaden weights, as I may call them, with which they are born into the world, which hang on to sensual pleasures, such as those of eating and drinking, and drag them down and turn the vision of their souls about the things that are below — if, I say, they had been released from them and turned round to the truth, the very same faculty in these very same persons would have seen the other as keenly as they now see that on which their eye is fixed.
第 340 頁 - We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised.
第 184 頁 - ... the good. Very true. And this is conversion ; and the art will be how to accomplish this as easily and completely as possible ; not implanting eyes, for they exist already, but giving them a right direction, which they have not. Yes, he said, that may be assumed. And hence while the other qualities seem to be akin to the body, being infused by habit and exercise and not originally innate, the virtue of wisdom is part of a divine essence, and has a power which is everlasting, and by this conversion...
第 281 頁 - Nature may be said in one way to be the simplest substratum of matter in things possessing their own principle of motion and change ; in another way it may be called the form or law of such things." In other words, Nature is both matter or potentiality, and form or actuality ; both the simple elements of a thing and its existence in perfection. It is also the transition from the one to the other.
第 45 頁 - Hippocrates to come to his assistance during a time of pestilence, but that Hippocrates refused his request on the ground of his being the enemy of his country. The writings which have come down to us under the name of Hippocrates were composed by several different persons, and are of very different merit.
第 386 頁 - Ever remember," says Strauss, "that thou art human, not merely a natural production; ever remember that all others are human also, and, with all individual differences, the same as thou, having the same needs and claims as thyself: this is the sum and the substance of morality

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