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Death is the antithesis of life.
Such frequent reference has been made above to continence in antithesis to illicit intercourse and masturbation that little need be said in addition to that which has preceded.
The dry “hot winds” that sometimes wither the crops of our western plains are the American antithesis of the blizzard.
Another method was founded on the theory that whatever was dreamt of, the antithesis or opposite would follow in life.
And thus from antithesis to synthesis, more and more universal, our scientific ideas will tend towards absolute truth.
His whiskers represent the very antithesis of the "Piccadilly fringe," also happily gone, or relegated to the coster fraternity, together with the bell-bottomed trouser with which it is in singular affinity.
"Inlaugh" is obviously the antithesis of the more familiar "Outlaw," whilst "Dozen" is used in its original sense of [122]"Ten," and has nothing to do with the number "Twelve.
Hence, to conceive of Pragmatism as ultimately sanctioning an "act-as-if" attitude of religious make-believe is a misapprehension; it is to confound it with the discredited and ineffectual dualism of Kant's antithesis of practical and theoretic "reason.
There is, however, considerable ambiguity as to the exact antithesis implied by the terms ‘intuition,’ ‘intuitive,’ and their congeners, as currently used in ethical discussion, which we must now endeavour to remove.
Further; the common antithesis between ‘intuitive’ and ‘inductive’ morality is misleading in another way: since a moralist may hold the rightness of actions to be cognisable apart from the pleasure produced by them, while yet his method may be properly called Inductive.
Stout,[137] “between pleasure and pain is coincident with the antithesis between free and impeded progress towards an end.
[185] And, in antithesis to Caution, we may notice as another minor virtue the quality called Decision, so far as we mean by Decision the habit of resisting an irrational impulse to which men are liable, of continuing to some extent in the deliberative attitude when they know that deliberation is no longer expedient, and that they ought to be acting.
We have found that the common antithesis between Intuitionists and Utilitarians must be entirely discarded: since such abstract moral principles as we can admit to be really self-evident are not only not incompatible with a Utilitarian system, but even seem required to furnish a rational basis for such a system.
The effectiveness of Butler’s famous argument against the vulgar antithesis between Self-love and Benevolence is undeniable: and it seems scarcely extravagant to say that, amid all the profuse waste of the means of happiness which men commit, there is no imprudence more flagrant than that of Selfishness in the ordinary sense of the term,-that excessive concentration of attention on the individual’s own happiness which renders it impossible for him to feel any strong interest in the pleasures and pains of others.
When we have once put completely out of view the Freedom of Caprice, the power of acting without a motive, or against the strongest motive when the competition is among merely natural or non-rational desires or aversions,-when we have agreed to exclude this, and to concentrate attention on the difference between Good Freedom and Neutral Freedom-I venture to think that no one can avoid seeing each member of this latter antithesis in Kant.
antithetic-antithetical It is convenient to compare Shaw and Chesterton because they are antithetic in temperament and opinion and represent two opposite currents of modern thought.
The body consists of two antithetic parts (antimera), and has no trace of radial structure.
For though he had made a deep and sympathetic study of German philosophy, he had in the end turned away from it to become a leader in the movement which is most antithetical to the traditionally German type of philosophizing.
, the department of duty which most prominently claims our attention, is that which deals with the existence, and determines the legitimacy, of feelings antithetical to the benevolent.
[246] And of a man who does the opposite of all this we predicate Meanness; this being the vice antithetical to Liberality.
, in fact, is antithetical to Bush's educational career, which looks like nothing more than a rote exercise in credentialism.
The paradox exists, though, because opposition to free trade depends upon two antithetical ideas, both of which, interestingly enough, are wrong.
Dunlap's nicknames-- preferred nicknames--are "Chainsaw Al" and "Rambo in Pinstripes," so you can scarcely imagine two more antithetical worldviews than his and the AMA's.
Meanwhile, leaders of the Christian right, whose aims are antithetical to those of libertarians, make the plausible claim that it is they who are winning converts and influence by the day.
" Call me square, but I find this antithetical to the documentary spirit.
" You could not invent two politicians with more antithetical worldviews than Hollings and Inglis: This is the Old New South vs.
Historically, LSC directives were seen by grantees as antithetical to their mission, so they resisted change while nonetheless remaining largely dependent on the waning federal investment.
In a thoroughly logical mind, applying the highest principles with equal force in the entire field of the[473] cosmos-in both organic and inorganic nature-the antithetical positions of theism and pantheism, vitalism and mechanism, approach until they touch each other.
Consciousness and matter represent to us the most different and antithetical terms of the whole of the[200] knowable.
"Nature" still means something antithetical to existing social organization; Plato exercised a great influence upon Rousseau.
91); and then pass over to the antithetical conception of social efficiency, which often opposes social to natural.
Method is not antithetical to subject matter; it is the effective direction of subject matter to desired results.
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