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Answers questions on Bertrand Russell's The Problems of Philosophy: appearance and reality, knowledge by acquaintance and the value of philosophy, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.
“Philosophy, like all other studies, aims primarily at knowledge. The knowledge it aims at is the kind of knowledge which gives unity and system to the body of t…”
Answers questions on Boethius's The Consolation of Philosophy: Fortune, true happiness, evil, providence and free will, quoting H. R. James's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the book.
“# THE CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY OF BOETHIUS.”
Answers questions on Plato's Symposium: the speeches on love by Phaedrus, Aristophanes, Agathon and Socrates, Diotima and Alcibiades, quoting Benjamin Jowett's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the speech.
“…ught him that love is another aspect of philosophy. The same want in the human soul which is satisfied in the vulgar by the procreation of children, may become …”
Answers questions on Lao-tzu's Tao Te Ching, on the Way and its virtue, quoting James Legge's 1891 English translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.
“3. The Tao is hidden, and has no name; but it is the Tao which is skilful at imparting (to all things what they need) and making them complete. 42. 1. The Tao p…”
Answers questions on John Stuart Mill's The Subjection of Women: equality in law, marriage, education and work, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.
“The truth is, that people of the present and the last two or three generations have lost all practical sense of the primitive condition of humanity; and only th…”
Answers questions on David Hume's Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: impressions and ideas, cause and effect, miracles and scepticism, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the section.
“### OF THE DIFFERENT SPECIES OF PHILOSOPHY. 1. Moral philosophy, or the science of human nature, may be treated after two different manners; each of which has i…”
Answers questions on William James's Pragmatism: the pragmatic method, the pragmatic theory of truth and the squirrel dispute, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the lecture.
“…eryone in the place pricks up his ears. Philosophy's results concern us all most vitally, and philosophy's queerest arguments tickle agreeably our sense of subt…”
Answers questions on Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil: the prejudices of philosophers, master and slave morality and the free spirit, quoting Helen Zimmern's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.
“…ED for it: a person has only a right to philosophy—taking the word in its higher significance—in virtue of his descent; the ancestors, the "blood," decide here …”
Answers questions on Plato's Republic: justice, the ideal city and the allegory of the cave, quoting Benjamin Jowett's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the book.
“…her, the illustrations of the nature of philosophy derived from love are more suited to the apprehension of Glaucon, the Athenian man of pleasure, than to moder…”
Answers questions on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: virtue, happiness, friendship and the golden mean, quoting D. P. Chase's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the book.
“…mation of character has expanded into a Philosophy of Human Conduct, merging at its beginning and end into metaphysics The result is a Moral Philosophy set agai…”
