Now this fact might have been assimilated by some philosophies without any great difficulty, but to the philosophy of Pythagoras it was absolutely fatal.
Men have remembered their wishes, and have judged philosophies in relation to their wishes.
This system and its practical consequences once accepted, the man is free to believe and follow what creeds or philosophieshe may please.
Both at any rate are protests against Brahman orthodoxy and the gnostic philosophies of essential Hinduism.
The atmosphere of Cambridge and Oxford seems decidedly unpropitious to the recognition of either Indian antiquity, or the merit of the philosophies sprung from its soil!
Hence, the Buddhistic, Vedantic and Magian, or Zoroastrian systems were taught in the Eclectic Theosophical School along with all the philosophies of Greece.
We have already pointed out that, in our opinion, the whole difference between Buddhistic and Vedantic philosophies was that the former was a kind of Rationalistic Vedantism, while the latter might be regarded as transcendental Buddhism.
But it is in the Aryan philosophies that we see this negation of all that we associate with individual life most emphatically and explicitly insisted on.
It assumed the dignity of organized speculation in the German philosophies of history, and in the positive philosophy of Auguste Comte.
The gracious but authoritative figure of the Master gives no further reply when we endeavour to restate his teaching in some completer form which admits of comparison with the ancient and modern philosophies of Europe.
To the intuition of Jesus Christians have held fast--though Greeks and others have called it "folly"; and in the meantime a good many philosophies have had their day.
How he selected this school from, among the 288 philosophies which he considered possible, by an elaborate and pedantic process of exhaustion, may be read by the curious in Augustine.
Compared with its system, all otherphilosophies were plebeian[93].
Hence it is the mortal enemy of all philosophies of life which place any principle above that of justice and its moral implications, Whether in the narrower or the wider social life.
There is work in the world for nations to do; there are empires of the spirit, it may be, greater than have yet been dreamed of in the nations' childish philosophies of life.
Nietzsche, Darwin and Hegel have all been exploited and made to stand sponsor for specific philosophies of war.
And the attempt was made accordingly, in various ways, to represent Christianity as the natural product of the different religions and philosophies which were current in the world at the time of its appearing.
The Christian religion, it is granted, was founded by Jesus Christ; but its theological interpretation is viewed as a misinterpretation, a malign legacy from the dying philosophies of Greece.
Similarly, the spontaneous insight of Christians and their new philosophies will express a Christian disposition.
Even if we consider posterity, the kingdoms and arts and philosophies of this world are short lived; they shift their aims continually and shift their substance.
It is to a life like this that you ought to go when you take stock of the philosophies of the world!
Then new philosophies and ethical rules are invented to try to justify the new ways.
Narrower philosophies become the fashion in classes, coteries, and cliques.
The religions and philosophies have not lacked their effect, but they have always had to compromise with facts, just as we see them do to-day.
The old world philosophies no longer commanded faith, and they seemed to be rejected with active hatred, not with mere indifferent unbelief.
The effect on the selection of articles of faith out of the doctrines of warring sects and philosophies is obvious, also the effect on methods of controversy.
Thus the religions and philosophies may have preached various doctrines about wealth, and may have found obedience, but the production of wealth, the love of wealth, and the power of wealth have run through all human history.
In the cases of Greece and Rome we have clear instances to prove the opposite tendencies of the mores, with their attendant philosophies and ethical principles, on the conjuncture of the conditions and interests.
The great viewpoints and the great world philosophies are found logically at the end of a long study of life, if anywhere.
All thephilosophies except Epicureanism, and all the sects in the mysteries, had encouraged it.
The Song of Los (engraved 1795) adds many interesting particulars of the process by which the world, with its philosophies and religions, has become what it is.
The tentative gropings of Socrates involved an ambiguity which issued in the conflictingphilosophies of Stoicism and Epicureanism.
Add to this the uncertain voice with which these philosophies speak in consequence of their advocates ignoring the implications of the most stupendous fact in human experience,--the Christian Revelation.
Unlike the philosophiesof Kant or Hegel or Spencer or James or Comte or Bergson, it is not a "one-man" philosophy.
Each of these philosophies has a speculative and a practical side.
For, while the scheme of Paganism, and of all the philosophies that sought to rationalize Paganism, was cosmic and static, the scheme of Christianity was historical.
The philosophies that remain ineffectual and academic are those that are formed by abstract reflection without relation to the thirsty souls of human kind.
I am speaking especially, of course, of the interplay of Rousseauistic and Baconian elements that appear in certain recent philosophies like that of Bergson.
According to religion one should seek to unite with a something that is set above both man and nature, whether this something is called God as in Christianity or simply the Law as in various philosophies of the Far East.
All the subtlety of the old Greek philosophies was introduced into the scholasticisms and word-splittings of those useless arguers; and vast reputations, which have not yet decayed, were built on this very unsubstantial foundation.
Its voice, lost in the din of speculative philosophies and the dissipation of courts, was heard in obscure places, where it never had penetrated before.
Even the least somnambulistic of the transcendental philosophieshas repeated, not improved upon Aristotle.
It is a striking manifestation of the extent in which philosophies have been compensatory in quality.
For where interests are in conflict with each other or with reality, and where the loser is not extirpated, its revenge may be just this self-fulfilment in unreality, in idea, which philosophies of absolute values offer it.
Midway between trade unionism and the simon-pure, idealistic reform philosophies stood producers' and consumers' cooperation.
As the prospect for immediate amelioration became dimmed by circumstances, an opportunity arrived for theories and philosophies of radical social reform.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "philosophies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
