The dilemma, in brief, was this: The man who is already good will have no difficulty in knowing the good both in general and in the specific clothing under which it presents itself in particular cases.
It is only to the good man that the good presents itself as good, for vice perverts us and causes us to err about the principle of action" (Book III.
The imperfect character of this view is freely admitted; no other, consistent with known facts, presents itself by which the effect can be explained.
It is only when it presents itself as a necessary link in philosophical discussion that it appears startling.
The universe, as we apprehend it, presents itself as a congeries of living souls united by some indefinable medium.
I suppose to a great many minds what we call "the universe" presents itself as a colossal circle, without any circumference, filled with an innumerable number of material objects floating in some thin attenuated ether.
But it is not therefore illusion or mere appearance; it presents itself as that which it is, idea, and indeed as a series of ideas of which the common bond is the principle of sufficient reason.
That the authorities consist of the very men who ought to be the authorities and that they know what they are doing, presents itself to them as an incontestable truth.
It presents itself to me as a history of a perception of the world of facts opening out from an accidental centre at which I happened to begin.
The first I call the exterior world, and it presents itself to me as existing in Time and Space.
That is how I see things; that is how the universe, in response to my demand for a synthesizing aspect, presents itself to me.
As I have already confessed, the Scheme of Salvation, the idea of a process of sorrow and atonement, presents itself to me as adequately true.
What now appears is that the unity of the Notion which is absolute existence, makes its appearance as necessity, and it presents itself first as the unity of self-consciousness and consciousness, as pure thought.
It is sometimes an assemblage of branching tubes, occasionally a rounded mass of spongy appearance, and now it presents itself as a flat lamelliform inarticulated expansion.
Our information fails to convey any precise notion of the time necessary for the coral to acquire the various proportions in which it presents itself.
Such is the advantage of the point of view, in which it is seen by the moral inquirer, to whom it presents itself, not under its momentary character of pleasure, but under its lasting character of pain and disgust.
For, although it presents itself to us under a heroic form, it is, after all, nothing but an escape from responsibility.
This definition is obviously not meant to be a description of intuition as it presents itself to introspection, but to be a reflective statement of its indispensable conditions.
He treated it only as it presents itself in those judgments which involve the concept of causality.
When all is said, it remains for us a merely de facto form of existence, and has to be taken just for what it presents itself as being.
Through calling out two opposed modes of behavior, it presents itself as meaning two incompatible things.
One coexistence is just as good as any other until some new point of view, or new end, presents itself.
And speaking of his lectures he goes on to say: "I have sought to unify the picture as it presents itself to my own eyes, dealing in broad strokes.
Now Causality, as the director of each and every change, presents itself in Nature under three distinct forms: as causes in the strictest acceptation of the word, as stimuli, and as motives.
Anything, everything, presents itself for a playlet problem--if you can make it human, interesting and alive.
No matter how pure your motive might be in making use of such a theme, resolutely deny it when it presents itself to you.
But this is not a metaphysical doctrine; it is a process of study, a method which consists in these two essential rules: to observe each fact as it presents itself; and to observe it in its order, i.
It presents itself everywhere as an individual creation, as the free and moral work of a few elect souls, in whom tradition by a profound crisis is purified and enlarged.
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