Some Popular Philosophy
Some Popular Philosophy
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Thus " right " and " wrong " have their meaning. " It behoves us to live according to nature, " said Cicero, and he who sets at naught A COROLLARY 2Q the laws of health shall assuredly die ; he who refuses to recognize the law of gravitation shall most undoubtedly fall ; and he who will not grant that two and two make four shall most incon- trovertibly come to ruin.
These are great laws of Nature, and he who opposes them must bear the consequences : man cannot plead ignorance.
Also, it behoves ...man to live according to his spiritual nature, and his spiritual nature is such that here also he cannot plead ignorance of right and wrong, for there is that in each man which speaks to him, unmistakably, of this system, this order.
In short, for man alone, " duty " and " ought " have a meaning, and our intention here is neither to dictate, to construct, to destroy, nor to inter- pret, but to paraphrase some conceptions of this "duty, " this "ought, " as held by certain thinkers.
Plato said that it was impossible for a man to know what was good, and to refuse to do it : sin arose through ignorance, a false estimation of life, and a miscalculation of the value of things : the real philosopher, the absolutely wise man was the really good man, inasmuch as he " could see things together, best of all men, " or could take a broad, dispassionate view of all things, could appreciate the true worth of this, the real 3O SOME POPULAR PHILOSOPHY worthlessness of that, and could determine aright what was worth striving after as an ultimate end of life, what things were useful as a means to that end, and what things were actually injurious as likely to tempt man from the straight path, and lead him to pursue that which was valueless.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Thus " right " and " wrong " have their meaning. " It behoves us to live according to nature, " said Cicero, and he who sets at naught A COROLLARY 2Q the laws of health shall assuredly die ; he who refuses to recognize the law of gravitation shall most undoubtedly fall ; and he who will not grant that two and two make four shall most incon- trovertibly come to ruin.
These are great laws of Nature, and he who opposes them must bear the consequences : man cannot plead ignorance.
Also, it behoves ...man to live according to his spiritual nature, and his spiritual nature is such that here also he cannot plead ignorance of right and wrong, for there is that in each man which speaks to him, unmistakably, of this system, this order.
In short, for man alone, " duty " and " ought " have a meaning, and our intention here is neither to dictate, to construct, to destroy, nor to inter- pret, but to paraphrase some conceptions of this "duty, " this "ought, " as held by certain thinkers.
Plato said that it was impossible for a man to know what was good, and to refuse to do it : sin arose through ignorance, a false estimation of life, and a miscalculation of the value of things : the real philosopher, the absolutely wise man was the really good man, inasmuch as he " could see things together, best of all men, " or could take a broad, dispassionate view of all things, could appreciate the true worth of this, the real 3O SOME POPULAR PHILOSOPHY worthlessness of that, and could determine aright what was worth striving after as an ultimate end of life, what things were useful as a means to that end, and what things were actually injurious as likely to tempt man from the straight path, and lead him to pursue that which was valueless.
What to read after Some Popular Philosophy?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by George H Long to read onlineMoreLess
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