10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SUFFICINGNESS»
Discover the use of
sufficingness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
sufficingness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Greek Political Theory (Routledge Library Editions: ...
... political consciousness had thusdeveloped in the Greek States. Eachwas
aware of itself asarounded whole,possessed of amoral life created and sustained
by itself; anditexpressed thissensein the conception of the. aself-sufficingness«.
or ...
2
The essence of Christianity
solitude and self-sufficingness; for that only can be solitary which is self-sufficing.
To be able to be solitary is a sign of character and thinking power. Solitude is the
want of the thinker, society the want of the heart. We can think alone, but we can ...
3
The Essence of Christianity
God as God, as a simple being is the being absolutely alone, solitary – absolute
solitude and self-sufficingness; for that only can be solitary which is self-sufficing.
To be able to be solitary is a sign of character and thinking power. Solitude is the
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Ludwig Feuerbach, George Eliot
The self-sufficingness of the Bible, and the right of private judgment — here, then,
are the two great characters in which Protestantism commences; these are the
bulwarks behind which it intrenches itself against Rome. And it is remarkable that
...
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The Moral Philosophy of Aristotle: Consisting of a ...
The same conclusion is seen to follow from the ' self-sufficing- ness' of happiness
; a final, absolute good being soiuteness nu'piy'a thought to be also self-sufficing,
life 'lacking in By the attribute of self-sufficingness, we do not •SfficSe^' imPlv ...
Aristotle, Walter Mooney Hatch, Edwin Hatch, 1879
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The Emotions and the Will
The virtue of Self-Sufficingness supposes a man rendering a full share of help to
others, and asking little in return. In a still more august manifestation, it signifies
standing alone and unsupported, in great emergencies ; and even braving a ...
He adopts the very watchword of Cynicism, " self-sufficingness " (auTapxeia). But
then the Aristotelian self-sufficingness is not of the sort that minimises wants, and
leaves the individual isolated from his kind and stripped of life's resources.
Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool, 1902
... looks at the repeated re-establishment, amongst a turbulent people, of the form
of government best fitted for them — he is alike struck with the self-sufficingness
of things. And when, after recognising this throughout the whole organic world, ...
While hostile relations with adjacent societies continue, each society has to be
productively self-sufficing ; but with the establishment of peaceful relations this
need for self-sufficingness ceases. As the local divisions composing one of our
great ...
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Where State Education Fails
All recognised the fact that the more we understand the constitution of children
the more is to be discovered therein of an inherent self-sufficingness. Palpably
one's own personal attitude to the young is of supreme importance. Induce a love
of ...
