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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 Neo - Stoicism dwelt endlessly upon the passions , for it is these that deflect man from virtue and contentment . passions are voluntary , born of reason but of a false reason ; the will , by giving assent to these false judgments ...
The Neo - Stoicism dwelt endlessly upon the passions , for it is these that deflect man from virtue and contentment . passions are voluntary , born of reason but of a false reason ; the will , by giving assent to these false judgments ...
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Nature = Reason Reason = " General Sense ' Nature & Reason 323 CRITICAL NOTES ON GULLIVER'S TRAVELS treated is the ideology of the Houyhnhnms set forth at length and their society portrayed . The Houyhnhnms ' thought , Nature and Reason ...
Nature = Reason Reason = " General Sense ' Nature & Reason 323 CRITICAL NOTES ON GULLIVER'S TRAVELS treated is the ideology of the Houyhnhnms set forth at length and their society portrayed . The Houyhnhnms ' thought , Nature and Reason ...
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Contents
CHAPTER PAGE | 3 |
CONTROLLING IDEAS | 49 |
The Battle of the Books AND A Tale of a Tub | 75 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | The Mind and Art of Jonathan Swift |
| Author | Ricardo Quintana |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1936 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 398 pages |
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