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the point of the social contract theory, as rousseau states it, is that legitimate society exists by the consent of the people, and acts by popular will. |
"when matter of religion is in question, i follow the high priests t. coruncanius, p. scipio, p. scaevola, and not zeno, cleanthes, or chrysippus."--cicero, de natura deor., iii. two. |
(the universal is more knowable in the order of explanation, the particular in the order of sense: for explanation has to do with the universal, sense with the particular.) 'the great and the small', for example, belong to the former class, 'the dense and |
he then told iris of the golden wings to carry a message for him. |
talked to him about something else, inventing a story for the occasion. |
then agnonides read the bill, in accordance with which the people should decide by show of hands whether they judged them guilty, and if so it should be found, the penalty should be death. |
prop. one. our mind is in certain cases active, and in certain cases passive. in so far as it has adequate ideas it is necessarily active, and in so far as it has inadequate ideas, it is necessarily passive. |
but, like a rock unmov'd, a rock that braves the raging tempest and the rising waves, propp'd on himself he stands; his solid sides wash off the seaweeds, and the sounding tides: so stood the pious prince, unmov'd, and long sustain'd the madness of the |
an equal time, the quicker is neither of equal velocity nor slower, it follows that the motion of the quicker can occupy neither an equal time nor more time. |
as for the means, and conduits, by which the people may receive this instruction, wee are to search, by what means so may opinions, contrary to the peace of man-kind, upon weak and false principles, have neverthelesse been so deeply rooted in them. |
one may perceive in almost every psychologist a tell-tale inclination for delightful intercourse with commonplace and well-ordered men; the fact is thereby disclosed that he always requires healing, that he needs a sort of flight and forgetfulness, away |
the smooth and the rough are severally produced by the union of evenness with compactness, and of hardness with inequality. |
proof.--that, which we conceive to affect an object of our love pleasurably or painfully, affects us also pleasurably or painfully (three. xxi.). but the mind (three. |
two hundred thirty consilio iuvare mss., ed.; bracketed by muther, muller, heine. |
which is in the same ratio to the other body as the time is to the time. |
by concoction, i understand the reducing of all commodities, which are not presently consumed, but reserved for nourishment in time to come, to some thing of equal value, and withall so portably, as not to hinder the motion of men from place to place; to |
health and plenty, and do them no harm; whereas the wanton love, getting the upper hand and affecting the seasons of the year, is very destructive and injurious, being the source of pestilence, and bringing many other kinds of diseases on animals and |
and suppose further, that they are dragged up a steep and rugged ascent into the presence of the sun himself, will not their sight be darkened with the excess of light? |
but the two forms of rectilinear motion are opposed to one another by reason of their places; for up and down is a difference and a contrary opposition in place. |
so with these thoughts in his mind, as soon as he came to sardis he proceeded to send heralds to his several allies to give them notice that by the fifth month from that time they should assemble at sardis: but the army which he had with him and which had |
"thus she both was, and still is, respected beyond measure by her children, by alcinous himself, and by the whole people, who look upon her as a goddess, and greet her whenever she goes about the city, for she is a thoroughly good woman both in head and |
and if he is sceptical about them, and would fain reduce them one after another to the rules of probability, this sort of crude philosophy will take up a great deal of time. now i have no leisure for such enquiries; shall i tell you why? |
in this way subjects will be treated of by anticipation which properly belong to later stages of development (e.g. |
but now we court foreigners and flatter them, and just as there is a vote of thanks at any one's pleasure, so even more eagerly is a prosecution decided on. |
for all (the pluralist philosophers)- those who generate the 'elements' as well as those who generate the bodies that are compounded of the elements- make use of 'dissociation' and 'association', and of 'action' and 'passion'. |
laius, king of thebes, married iokaste; he was warned by apollo that if he had any children ruin would befall his house. |
they say that he has these diseases because he has offended in some way against the sun: but a stranger who is taken by these diseases, in many regions one hundred forty four they drive out of the country altogether, and also white doves, alleging against |
we must also discuss the remaining forms of change, viz. growth and 'alteration'. |
dem.-let abhij, cdefg be the polygons, and let the sides ab, four hundred be homologous. join ah, ai, ce, cf. |
why embracest thou an alien excellence as thine own? never will fortune make thine that which the nature of things has excluded from thy ownership. doubtless the fruits of the earth are given for the sustenance of living creatures. |
forty six. in a triangle, given the sum or the difference of two sides and the angle formed by these sides both in magnitude and position, the locus of the centre of the circumscribed circle is a right line. |
master said, 'the princes of states have a screen intercepting the view at their gates. kwan had likewise a screen at his gate. the princes of states on any friendly meeting between two of them, had a stand on which to place their inverted cups. |
or thus: from a as centre, with the lesser side ab as radius, describe the circle bed, cutting bc in e. join ae. now since ab is equal to ae, the angle aeb is equal to abe; but aeb is greater than acb (xvi.); therefore abe is greater than acb. |
"harness the chariot which you yield to me, |
the vulgar and common estimation is seldom happy in hitting; and i am much mistaken if, amongst the writings of my time, the worst are not those which have most gained the popular applause. |
sink in his knees and shift from foot to foot. iliad, xiii., two hundred eighty one. |
now there is only one way of taking care of things, and this is to give to each the food and motion which are natural to it. and the motions which are naturally akin to the divine principle within us are the thoughts and revolutions of the universe. |
of cause) what is suitable for each kind of discussion, culling it out of this abundance which we have already displayed. |
but consider well whether magnanimity rather, and true liberty, and true simplicity, and equanimity, and holiness; whether these be not most kind and natural? |
brutus answered, "when i was young, cassius, and unskillful in affairs, i was led, i know not how, into uttering a bold sentence in philosophy, and blamed cato for killing himself, as thinking it an irreligious act, and not a valiant one among men, to try |
continue to be moved? if so, it will not be ab primarily that is moved by itself, since, when something is taken away from ab, the remainder of ab will still continue to move itself. |
flux. by such reflections we may conceive the greek to have attained the metaphysical conception of eternity, which to the hebrew was gained by meditation on the divine being. |
but (some one will say) it is contrary to reason to suppose that there should be one identical actualization of two things which are different in kind. yet there will be, if teaching and learning are the same, and agency and patiency. |
it seems to have arisen out of the impression left on the human mind by the growth of the roman empire and of the christian church, and to be due to the political and social improvements which they introduced into the world; and still more in our own |
observation.-by the second method of proof the subdivision of the demonstration into cases is avoided. it is easy to see that either of the two parallelograms abcd, ebcf can be divided into parts and rearranged so as to make it congruent with the other. |
four hundred sixteen. the aim of conscious mind is to make its appearance identical with its essence, to raise its self-certainty to truth . |
these criteria, however, apply solely to the form of truth, that is, of thought in general, and in so far they are perfectly accurate, yet not sufficient. |
and you know that a man who is deranged and not right in his mind, will fancy that he is able to rule, not only over men, but also over the gods? |
hence the arc gc, which is the difference between these two arcs, is equal to two ths one rd, or -one th of the entire circumference; and therefore, if chords equal to gc i. |
as to the thinkers who explain modification of property through the movement facilitated by the pores, if this is supposed to occur notwithstanding the fact that the pores are filled, their postulate of pores is superfluous. |
viii. the angle of a segment is the angle contained between its chord and the tangent at either extremity. |
but if (as we see to be universally the case) that which primarily is moved locally and corporeally must be either in contact with or continuous with that which moves it, the things moved and the movents must be continuous or in contact with one another, |
slew him. this was the introduction to the slaughter; for the rest, following his example, set upon them all and killed them, and dispatched all others that came in their way; and so went on to the sacking and pillaging the houses, which they continued |
either for the being, or well being almost of every particular man; it is necessary, that men distribute that which they can spare, and transferre their propriety therein, mutually one to another, by exchange, and mutuall contract. |
works, passing, at each pulsation, classes, populations, of men. with each divine impulse the mind rends the thin rinds of the visible and finite, and comes out into eternity, and inspires and expires its air. |
so exceedingly easy of conquest that one of the natives of it rose up against the government with fifteen men-at-arms and got possession of the island, and is now despot of it?" |
is the change from being musical to being unmusical, or how is memory or forgetting, to occur? |
'god therefore adopted the remaining alternative, and fulfilled the perfection of the universe by making coming-to-be uninterrupted: for the greatest possible coherence would thus be secured to existence, because that 'coming-to-be should itself |
dem.-produce bd both ways, and cut off any number of parts bg, gh, c., each equal to cb, and any number dk, kl, each equal to four hundred. join ag, ah, ak, al. |
even in our counsels and deliberations there must, certainly, be something of chance and good-luck mixed with human prudence; for all that our wisdom can do alone is no great matter; the more piercing, quick, and apprehensive it is, the weaker it finds |
he lives not for the present, but for the future, and he is not at all sure that he will be appreciated either now or then. for he may have the existing order of society against him, and may not be remembered by a distant posterity. |
by addition then, also, there is potentially an infinite, namely, what we have described as being in a sense the same as the infinite in respect of division. for it will always be possible to take something ah extra. |
cast forth redounding smoke and ruddy flame. |
then the being-in-motion that corresponds to half the motion will be less than the whole being-in-motion, that which corresponds to a quarter of the motion will be less again, and so on to infinity. |
in such cases we have only to take the time in which a thing has changed and again apply the same reasoning. |
intellectual habits and defects this way contracted, are not less frequent and powerful, though less observed. |
cheerful ways of men cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair presented with a universal blank of nature's works to me expung'd and ras'd, and wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. |
the authority of government, even such as i am willing to submit to,-for i will cheerfully obey those who know and can do better than i, and in many things even those who neither know nor can do so well,-is still an impure one: to be strictly just, it |
themselves, he departed for epirus, having orders from the senate, to give the soldiers that followed him in the war against perseus the pillage of the cities of that country. |
they had no power if it can be said that they did not know it, or were not in the place, or were unable to have accomplished it; they had no opportunity, if it can be proved that any plan, any assistants, any instruments, and all other things which relate |
even an inclination to what is right (e.g., to beneficence), though it may much facilitate the efficacy of the moral maxims, cannot produce any. |
i have laid a foundation, whereon may be raised many excellent conclusions of the highest utility and most necessary to be known, as will, in what follows, be partly made plain. |
or evaporating, and are perceptible only in the intermediate state, when water is changing into air and air into water; and all of them are either vapour or mist. |
yet this was not till after moses had been with god before, and had brought to the people the words which god had said to him. |
and the number of a hundred horses and a hundred men is the same, but the things numbered are different-the horses from the men. further, as a movement can be one and the same again and again, so too can time, e.g. a year or a spring or an autumn. |
and he who obeys this law will do a noble action; but he who will not obey, and gives or receives more than fifty drachmae as the price of the marriage garments if he be of the lowest, or more than a mina, or a mina-and-a-half, if he be of the third or |
but the palpable fact, on the contrary, is that the greater the quantity, the lighter the mass is and the quicker its upward movement: and, similarly, in the reverse movement from above downward, the small mass will move quicker and the large slower. |
socrates: and will not the true rhetorician who is honest and understands his art have his eye fixed upon these, in all the words which he addresses to the souls of men, and in all his actions, both in what he gives and in what he takes away? |
it does not impart motion as a whole nor is it moved as a whole: it is a alone that imparts motion and b alone that is moved. it is not true, further, that g is moved by a, which is impossible. |
there is a similarity between the timaeus and the fragments of philolaus, which by some has been thought to be so great as to create a suspicion that they are derived from it. |
enough, the off-spring of callistus, one of caesar's freedmen, and a certain seamstress. |
now if i take a magnitude twice as great at bg, the time occupied by this magnitude in moving five hundred will be half of ez (assuming this to be the proportion): so we may call this time zh. |
two. prove that the line joining the point a to the intersection of the lines cf and bg is an axis of symmetry of the figure. |
will be sufficient to know how he has thought. his style is an exact expression of how he has thought, of the essential state and general quality of his thoughts. |
in short, however useful medicine, properly administered, may be among us, it is certain that, if the savage, when he is sick and left to himself, has nothing to hope but from nature, he has, on the other hand, nothing to fear but from his disease; which |
great cato there, for gravity renown'd, and conqu'ring cossus goes with laurels crown'd. who can omit the gracchi? who declare the scipios' worth, those thunderbolts of war, the double bane of carthage? |
of the fact, then, that the stars are neither fiery nor move in fire, enough has been said. |
in the meantime, the men had armed themselves mostly, and were receiving the word from valens; so while the legions took up their position, they sent out the best of their horse in advance. |
observation.-the line de may cut the sides ab, ac produced through b, one hundred, or through the angle a; but evidently a separate figure for each of these cases is unnecessary. |
current that the oracle had called him so. |
but they must be disabused of this error and their way of thinking must be wholly converted to the hope and conviction that it is only by moral character and righteousness, not by dishonesty and craftiness, that they may attain to the objects of their |
the samians, that they might requite an affront which had before been put upon them, branded the athenians, whom they took prisoners, in their foreheads, with the figure of an owl. |
for in so far as it is infinite, there will be no up or down or middle, and in so far as it is a void, up differs no whit from down; for as there is no difference in what is nothing, there is none in the void (for the void seems to be a non-existent and a |
to sum the matter up, the cause of this result is obvious, viz. that between any two movements there is a ratio (for they occupy time, and there is a ratio between any two times, so long as both are finite), but there is no ratio of void to full. |
"to that each day allots most time, wherein |
socrates: to be sure i will: the chief theme of my yesterday's discourse was the state-how constituted and of what citizens composed it would seem likely to be most perfect. |
husband being so far from that of an absolute monarch, that the wife has in many cases a liberty to separate from him, where natural right, or their contract allows it; whether that contract be made by themselves in the state of nature, or by the customs |
i know, indeed, that he was raised to the dignities connected with his neighbourhood--dignities accounted considerable; and i know also, that no one ever acquitted himself better of them; and when he died at the age of thirty-two, he enjoyed a reputation |
when then is my brother's? that again belongs to his own art; but with respect to yours, it is one of the external things, like a piece of land, like health, like reputation. but philosophy promises none of these. |
the same quality wheresoever to be imagined or met with; and thus universals, whether ideas or terms, are made. |
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