Word: self
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...which makes it relatively describable, while the other, and deeper aspect finds it to be essentially appreciable, and so the embodiment of "Ideals." or of "Purposes," which however are not to be considered as "effective in time," but as constituting the eternal "significance" of the world of the Self...
...beginning of the Christianera, the Greek philosophy had grown to be extremely practical. The school of philosophers taught self-command and discipline. Its aim was personal culture. A writer on that school, Epictetus made a great point of the effect that philosophy produced on a man. The other element of the philosophy, the religious element, was beautifully set forth in the writings of Seneca. His doctrines were that God was a friend and a loving father to all. Even the most miserable of men felt God's munificence. Man was a living sluine of God. This was a very sublime...
...Ireland has a right to homerule.- a. Right of all British subjects to self-government; Hannis Taylor; Origin and growth of the English Constitution, I. 12, 13; Fiske, American Political Ideas. 54-56; 70-71; 91-92; Hosmer, Anglo Saxon Freedom, 270 271, 322-323; Nineteenth Century, February, 1887.-b. History does not support England's claim to govern Ireland: E. A. Freeman in Contemporary Review, Feb.1886, 156-157; Gladstone in handbook of Home Rule, 262-280; Gladstone; The Irish Question, 10.-c. The Irish are competent to govern themselves: Handbook of Home Rule...
...last evening on a text from the fifteenth verse of the twelfth chapter of Luke. When the regular meeting was over, the president of the association called a business meeting. D. C. Torrey '90 proposed that the society reprint five thousand copies of the article enticed "Harvard's Better Self," by W. R. Bigelow, which appeared recently in the New England Magazine. The motion was passed. It will cost $125 to print and send out five thousand copies...
...Truth can defend itself against an ultinate skepicism, which should question how any conscious being can in any wise escape from his in her life as such, and know any truth, real or ideal beyond his private consciousness. The essentially Kantian answer is suggessel, that in fact no self really escapes or even means to escape from the world of its own true selfconsciousness, in the act of knowing truth; but that. never the less, the world of the Self is not the world of the private and momentary, but of the true and therefore Complete Self. This Self...