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contemporaries arose from the interpretation given to the terms reason and nature . There were involved here two concepts from which what is individual and particular had been banished . [ Reason , it was held , was the same in all men ...
contemporaries arose from the interpretation given to the terms reason and nature . There were involved here two concepts from which what is individual and particular had been banished . [ Reason , it was held , was the same in all men ...
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The essence of the neo- Stoical doctrine is this : the passions are utterly reprehensi- ble ; reason must and can govern ; the life which is proper to man is a life of unimpassioned reason . This was in part an inheritance from medieval ...
The essence of the neo- Stoical doctrine is this : the passions are utterly reprehensi- ble ; reason must and can govern ; the life which is proper to man is a life of unimpassioned reason . This was in part an inheritance from medieval ...
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The passions are voluntary , born of reason but of a false reason ; the will , by giving assent to these false judgments , gives life to the passions . Another source of the passions is found in the senses : these , messengers to the ...
The passions are voluntary , born of reason but of a false reason ; the will , by giving assent to these false judgments , gives life to the passions . Another source of the passions is found in the senses : these , messengers to the ...
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Contents
CHAPTER | 3 |
MOOR PARK AND SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE | 10 |
The Battle of the Books AND A Tale of a | 49 |
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| Title | The Mind and Art of Jonathan Swift |
| Author | Ricardo Quintana |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1953 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 400 pages |
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