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... conceived , in which unremitting self - conscious volition is the active prin- ciple . Despite his devotion , as we shall see , to received modes of metaphor as a technique of expression , the humanist tends to distrust analogy as a ...
... conceived , in which unremitting self - conscious volition is the active prin- ciple . Despite his devotion , as we shall see , to received modes of metaphor as a technique of expression , the humanist tends to distrust analogy as a ...
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... conceived as ' action ' ( as it is by Johnson ) and human life conceived as ' behaviour ' ( as it is by Sterne ) is one important point at issue between these two ethical and expressive traditions . When the non - humanist writer does ...
... conceived as ' action ' ( as it is by Johnson ) and human life conceived as ' behaviour ' ( as it is by Sterne ) is one important point at issue between these two ethical and expressive traditions . When the non - humanist writer does ...
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... conceived of as a social symbol like clothing which derives from a sort of public wardrobe ( like the public ... conceive of himself as distant from the animal will gradually produce in him — so the humanists think - a more or less ...
... conceived of as a social symbol like clothing which derives from a sort of public wardrobe ( like the public ... conceive of himself as distant from the animal will gradually produce in him — so the humanists think - a more or less ...
Contents
The Human Attributes | 28 |
The Uniformity of Human Nature | 54 |
The Depravity of Man | 70 |
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