The Enlightenment: The Culture of the Eighteenth CenturyIsidor Schneider |
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... mind with this perfect idea of beauty . " He , " says Proclus , " who takes for his model such forms as nature produces , and confines himself to an exact imitation of them , will never attain to what is perfectly beautiful . For the ...
... mind with this perfect idea of beauty . " He , " says Proclus , " who takes for his model such forms as nature produces , and confines himself to an exact imitation of them , will never attain to what is perfectly beautiful . For the ...
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... mind to be , as we say , white paper , void of all characters , without any ideas ; how comes it to be furnished ? Whence comes it by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless ...
... mind to be , as we say , white paper , void of all characters , without any ideas ; how comes it to be furnished ? Whence comes it by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless ...
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... mind gets by reflecting on its own operations within itself . By reflection , then , in the following part of this discourse , I would be understood to mean that notice which the mind takes of its own operations , and the manner of them ...
... mind gets by reflecting on its own operations within itself . By reflection , then , in the following part of this discourse , I would be understood to mean that notice which the mind takes of its own operations , and the manner of them ...
Contents
PREFACE 739 | 15 |
Toward a Rational Society | 43 |
John Locke FROM Civil Government | 50 |
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