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3 days ago · “Law of nature” a superstition. — When you speak so rapturously of a conformity to law in nature you must either assume that all natural things freely obey laws they themselves have imposed upon themselves — in which case you are admiring the morality of nature — or you are entranced by the idea of a creative mechanic who has made the most ingenious clock, with living creatures upon ...
6 days ago · - thomas hobbes. - the human potential. 'not in revelling and drunkenness, not in debauchery and licentiousness, not in quarrelling and jealousy. instead put on the lord jesus christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.'
2 days ago · Nietzsche laid claim to the direction of the future of the human race. “The task of governing the world is going to fall to our lot.”. And elsewhere: “The time is approaching when we shall have to struggle for the domination of the world, and this struggle will be fought in the name of philosophical principles.”.
2 days ago · A person develops courage once he or she sees courageousness as honorable, beautiful, and noble, as "a glory to human nature" as J.A. Stewart put it in his summary of this chapter. [ 48 ] People who have excessive fearlessness would be mad (Aristotle remarks that some describe Celts this way).
5 days ago · Human nature is complex, and the Bible has a lot to say about it. Are we naturally good, or is there something flawed about humanity from a biblical perspective? Let’s see what scripture reveals about human nature and how we can understand ourselves better through its teachings.
2 days ago · He regarded education as a pathway to improve human nature which to him meant "to encourage, among other characteristics, diversity and originality, the energy of character, initiative, autonomy, intellectual cultivation, aesthetic sensibility, non-self-regarding interests, prudence, responsibility, and self-control."
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3 days ago · No individual human actions are free, Schopenhauer argues, because they are events in the world of appearance and thus are subject to the principle of sufficient reason: a person's actions are a necessary consequence of motives and the given character of the individual human.
