The History of Ancient Philosophy, Volume 3D. A. Talboys, 1839 - Philosophy, Ancient |
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Page 414 - For while we lire, death is not, and when death is, we are not; when it is present we feel it not, for it is the end of all feeling, and that, which by its presence cannot affect our happiness, ought not, when thought of as a future, to trouble us. Here Epicurus must bear the censure urged against him by the ancients, that he does not recognize any positive end of life, and that the object after which his sage should strive is a mere passionlesa state.
Page 426 - ... quare in seminibus quoque idem fateare necessest, esse aliam praeter plagas et pondera causam 285 motibus, unde haec est nobis innata potestas, de nilo quoniam fieri nil posse videmus. pondus enim prohibet ne plagis omnia fiant externa quasi vi. sed ne mens ipsa necessum intestinum habeat cunctis in rebus agendis 290 et devicta quasi cogatur ferre patique, id facit exiguum clinamen principiorum nec regione loci certa nec tempore certo.
Page 10 - Aristoteles veteres philosophos accusans , qui existimavissent, philosophiam suis ingeniis esse perfectam, ait, eos aut stultissimos aut gloriosissimos fuisse , sed se videre , quod paucis annis magna accessio facta esset, brevi tempore philosophiam plane absolutam fore.
Page 459 - Philosophia studium virtutis est, sed per ipsam virtutem ; nee virtus autem esse sine studio sui potest nee virtutis studium sine ipsa.
Page 359 - ... sit quicquam nisi corpus unum et simplex, ita figuratum, ut temperatione naturae vigeat et sentiat.
Page 250 - It would take a whole volume instead of a chapter to set forth the multifarious contrasting tenets of individual Greek philosophers, from the age of Pherecydes to that of lamblichus, in relation to a future life. Not a few held, with Empedocles, that human life is a penal state, the doom...
Page 530 - ... primum ut mundus quam aptissimus sit ad permanendum, deinde ut nulla re egeat, maxime autem ut in eo eximia pulchritudo sit atque omnis ornatus.
Page 523 - Ilepi 7tpovota<; quarto dissereret "nihil est prorsus istis", inquit, "insubidius, qui opinantur bona esse potuisse, si non essent ibidem mala. Nam cum bona malis contraria sint, utraque necessum est opposita inter sese et quasi mutuo adversoque fulta nisu consistere; nullum adeo contrarium est sine contrario altero.
Page 60 - Ritter in his history of philosophy (English Transl. Vol. III. p. 66) remarks on them : " If the categories had been put forward as an accurate and exhaustive division of the modes of being, it would be open to many objections, but Aristotle does not usually ascribe much importance to this enumeration of the most general notions, so that we may regard it as nothing more than an attempt to exhibit in a clear...
Page 597 - Academic! quidem, inquit, ipsum illud, nihil posse comprehend!, quasi comprehendunt, et nihil posse decerni, quasi decernunt : Pyrrhonii ne id quidem ullo pacto videri verum dicunt, quod Nihil esse verum videtur.