The Enlightenment: The Culture of the Eighteenth CenturyIsidor Schneider |
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Page 109
... seems that they make no difference between what exists in itself and what owes its existence to art , to the human will . It seems that nature interests their minds and their curiosity more than moral feeling . They do not attach ...
... seems that they make no difference between what exists in itself and what owes its existence to art , to the human will . It seems that nature interests their minds and their curiosity more than moral feeling . They do not attach ...
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... seems the only active principle of the mind . The most trifling occurrence gives pleasure , till the gloss of novelty is worn away . Nor till we have ceased wondering can we pos- sibly grow wise ; it is then we call the reasoning ...
... seems the only active principle of the mind . The most trifling occurrence gives pleasure , till the gloss of novelty is worn away . Nor till we have ceased wondering can we pos- sibly grow wise ; it is then we call the reasoning ...
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... seems , therefore , plainly possible to carry on the business of life without any pain . Why then is any animal ever rendered susceptible of such a sensation ? If animals can be free from it an hour , they might enjoy a perpetual ...
... seems , therefore , plainly possible to carry on the business of life without any pain . Why then is any animal ever rendered susceptible of such a sensation ? If animals can be free from it an hour , they might enjoy a perpetual ...
Contents
PREFACE 739 | 15 |
Toward a Rational Society | 43 |
John Locke FROM Civil Government | 50 |
Copyright | |
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ALEXANDER POPE ancient animal Antoine Watteau beauty believe body Calas called cause child Christians Circassia civil common commonwealth constitution creatures DENIS DIDEROT Diderot earth eighteenth century empire Enlightenment evil executive father feel follow force Francisco de Goya freedom French genius Giovanni Battista Piranesi give Greek hands happiness heart human ideas imagination individual innocent Jacques Ange Gabriel Jean Calas judge king labor laws learned legislative less liberty living Lord Louis XIV Madame de Pompadour mankind manner master ment mind Montesquieu moral mother nations nature necessary never observed passions perfect person philosopher PHOTO pleasure political preservation principles produced punishment reason religion Roman Rousseau sense smallpox social society species spirit supreme things Thomas Gainsborough thought tion truth Voltaire whole William Hogarth word Yahoos young