Moral Philosophy by S. J. Joseph Rickaby
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Observe, both end and means are willed _directly_, but the circumstances _indirectly_. The end is _intended_, [Greek: boulaeton]; the means are _chosen_, [Greek: proaireton]; the circumstances are simply _permitted_, [Greek: anekton], rightly or wrongly. The _intention_ of the end is called by English philosophers the _motive_; while the choice of means they call the _intention_, an unfortunate terminology. p. 42, S. 3. "As the wax takes all shapes, and yet is wax still at the bottom; the [Greek: spokeimenon] still is wax; so the soul transported in so many several passions of joy, fear, hope, sorrow, anger, and the rest, has for its general groundwork of all this, Love." (Henry More, quoted in Carey's Dante, _Purgatorio_, c. xviii.) Hence, says Carey, Love does not figure in Collins's _Ode on the Passions_. p. 43. For _daring_ read _recklessness_. p. 44. Plato is a thorough Stoic when he says (_Phaedo_ 83) that every pleasure and pain comes with a nail to pin down the soul to the body and make it corporeal. His Stoicism appears in his denunciation of the drama (_Republic_, x. 604). p. 47, S. 8. The first chapter of Mill's _Autobiography_, pp. 48-53, 133-149, supplies an instance. p. 49, S. I, 1. 2, for _physical_ read _psychical_. P. 52. S. 5. This _serving_, in [Greek: douleuein], St. Ignatius calls |
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