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... human suffer- ing is laid bare , and we see it in a being who is at once divine and human . The accounts of the Passion show that a divine spirit , incarnate , is changed by misfortune , trembles before suffering and death , feels ...
... human suffer- ing is laid bare , and we see it in a being who is at once divine and human . The accounts of the Passion show that a divine spirit , incarnate , is changed by misfortune , trembles before suffering and death , feels ...
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... human existence . Considered scientifically and in the light of systematic knowledge , nothing can be said to be in ... human beings from animals and inanimate objects . It is part of the force of the word " moral " that only human ...
... human existence . Considered scientifically and in the light of systematic knowledge , nothing can be said to be in ... human beings from animals and inanimate objects . It is part of the force of the word " moral " that only human ...
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... human thought and behaviour ; he is constantly insisting that emo- tional and moral attitudes , which can only be the reflections of our subjective desires and fears , must obstruct us in understanding the causes of our un- happiness ...
... human thought and behaviour ; he is constantly insisting that emo- tional and moral attitudes , which can only be the reflections of our subjective desires and fears , must obstruct us in understanding the causes of our un- happiness ...
Contents
HOMER The Iliad or The Poem of Force | 3 |
AESCHYLUS Introduction to the Oresteia | 51 |
Sophocles | 78 |
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