The Meaning of Life: Insights of the World's Great ThinkersRodopi, 1994 - 282 páginas The book aims to present the wisdom of sages, great thinkers, renowned writers, and philosophers, of many countries and time periods, in their own words, regarding life. The book also aims to place the numerous quotations from these sources in a structured organization, with introductory and explanatory comments and comparisons. Main Topics or Fields - See Organization or Principal Parts. |
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... asked in the title of this chapter may be rephrased more specifically as follows : 1. In the history of the universe , how did it happen that life came into being ? 2. Now that there are living things , what basically differentiates the ...
... asked in the title of this chapter may be rephrased more specifically as follows : 1. In the history of the universe , how did it happen that life came into being ? 2. Now that there are living things , what basically differentiates the ...
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... asked whether any definition of life could settle all cases in which you need to decide whether something is alive or not . Locke's examples of borderline cases are summarized below . ( 21 ) Any one almost would take it for an affront ...
... asked whether any definition of life could settle all cases in which you need to decide whether something is alive or not . Locke's examples of borderline cases are summarized below . ( 21 ) Any one almost would take it for an affront ...
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... and struggles , disappointments and suffering , and , having asked whether all of these phenomena are " amenable to a physico - chemical analysis ” ( that is , to analysis in terms of mechanics alone ) , he said 14 LIFE IN GENERAL.
... and struggles , disappointments and suffering , and , having asked whether all of these phenomena are " amenable to a physico - chemical analysis ” ( that is , to analysis in terms of mechanics alone ) , he said 14 LIFE IN GENERAL.
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... asked . Homage to Plants Accorded in the Bible and in Post - Biblical Literature Plant life is celebrated radiantly in the Bible . The Biblical writers ' attitude on this subject may plausibly have reflected an innate ( biological ) ...
... asked . Homage to Plants Accorded in the Bible and in Post - Biblical Literature Plant life is celebrated radiantly in the Bible . The Biblical writers ' attitude on this subject may plausibly have reflected an innate ( biological ) ...
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... asked : Roses why for silver sell ? O rose - merchant , fairly tell What you buy instead of those , That is costlier than the rose ? b . Jami ( died 1492 ) praised another flower , the tu- lip , in these lines : ( 77 ) Behold the tulip ...
... asked : Roses why for silver sell ? O rose - merchant , fairly tell What you buy instead of those , That is costlier than the rose ? b . Jami ( died 1492 ) praised another flower , the tu- lip , in these lines : ( 77 ) Behold the tulip ...
Índice
3 | |
21 | |
Part 2 | 71 |
Who Am I and What Am I? | 77 |
Is Will Defeated by Causality Fate | 109 |
Part 3 | 133 |
Is There Meaning in Our Lives? If | 153 |
How Do We March from Childhood to | 165 |
What Are the Basic Truths About Sex | 189 |
Civilization? | 219 |
How Should We Appraise Religious | 231 |
Source References | 249 |
Index of Authors and Anonymous | 279 |
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The Meaning of Life: Insights of the World's Great Thinkers William Gerber Pré-visualização limitada - 1994 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
Adler al-Ghazzali animals think answer Aquinas argument Aristotle asked aspect attributes basic behavior belief Bertrand Russell Blaise Pascal body Book brain called causality causes century chapter Charles Van Doren cited common era death declared doctrine Doren earth eat flesh edited editor eternal example existence expressed faith feel flowers freedom Genesis God's Greek happens hath human condition Ibid idea Immanuel Kant immortality Jewish John kind laws living things Lord Louis Untermeyer Lucretius marriage Martin Gardner meaning medieval mind moral namely nature negative offered Oliver Goldsmith passages person Peter Singer pets philosopher physical plants Plato Plotinus poem poet positive balance prayer Press Psalm question quoted reason reference regarding relation religion religious Roman sense Serpell sexual Sidney Hook Solomon ibn Gabirol soul specific T]he thee thinkers thou thought tion translated truth University verse William wisdom writers wrote York
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Página 48 - And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea ; into your hand are they delivered.
Página 228 - Earth has not anything to show more fair : Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers,, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
Página 166 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Página 34 - Gave thee life, and bid thee feed By the stream and o'er the mead; Gave thee clothing of delight, Softest clothing, woolly, bright; Gave thee such a tender voice, Making all the vales rejoice?
Página 35 - And what shoulder and what art Could twist the sinews of thy heart? And, when thy heart began to beat, What dread hand and what dread feet?
Página 167 - And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years : few and evil have the days of the years of my life been...
Página 177 - DEAR MADAM : I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming.
Página 32 - And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.