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Author: Rudolf Eucken Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780266405948 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 168
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Excerpt from The Meaning and Value of Life Has human life any meaning and value? In asking this question we are under no illusion. We know that we cannot pose to-day as the possessors of a truth which we have but to unfold. The question confronts us as a problem that is still unsolved, whilst we may not renounce the attempt to solve it. That our modern era lacks all assurance in regard to its solution is a point we shall have to establish more in detail. But no subtlety of argument is needed to Show that such assurance is to us indispensable. We are subject to manifold impressions, beset by endless problems, and it is hard to discern amid the maze any unity of meaning or purpose. Life, moreover, is no mere idle game; it requires toil and labour, renunciation and sacrifice. Is it worth the. Toil, worth the labour? Can the good of the whole compensate for all partial risks and losses? Can it justify us in affirming that life is worth the living The question has more than a speculative interest; for unless faith in some lofty ideal infuse zest and gladness into every department. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Rudolf Eucken Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780266405948 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 168
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Excerpt from The Meaning and Value of Life Has human life any meaning and value? In asking this question we are under no illusion. We know that we cannot pose to-day as the possessors of a truth which we have but to unfold. The question confronts us as a problem that is still unsolved, whilst we may not renounce the attempt to solve it. That our modern era lacks all assurance in regard to its solution is a point we shall have to establish more in detail. But no subtlety of argument is needed to Show that such assurance is to us indispensable. We are subject to manifold impressions, beset by endless problems, and it is hard to discern amid the maze any unity of meaning or purpose. Life, moreover, is no mere idle game; it requires toil and labour, renunciation and sacrifice. Is it worth the. Toil, worth the labour? Can the good of the whole compensate for all partial risks and losses? Can it justify us in affirming that life is worth the living The question has more than a speculative interest; for unless faith in some lofty ideal infuse zest and gladness into every department. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Alban Goodier Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9781527984318 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 152
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Excerpt from The Meaning of Life: And Other Essays Mummers Housn, roehampton, london, s.w., Feact of the Immaculate Conception. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: William Leonard Courtney Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780365263890 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 70
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Excerpt from The Meaning of Life I3 gs lievelieve its dogmas, all is well. But many per sons cannot believe, either on scientific or philosophical grounds, or because they know something of the history of the Creeds. And if that be the case, then they must face the tremendous dilemma in their own way. Either Death puts an end to conscious life or it does not. In the first case, the constituent elements of our body, which for some few years cohered to form the self, are dispersed and go back again to the bosom of Nature to be worked up possibly into new shapes, but at all events to the utter destruction of the self. In the second case there is something in us which is untouched by physical decay - which leaves the decaying body to rot in its own man ner, while itself survives. Supposing that we assent to the separate existence of the soul, what then? What becomes of it after death? Does its survival mean that our personal con sciousness survives, so that we are recognisable individualities - Tom, Dick and Harry in a new Sphere? Or does our Spirit become merged in a universal spirit, the limited be coming unlimited, the finite infinite, so that Tom, Dick and Harry cease to be distinct and lose themselves in God? You See, it makessuch a difference to us in this world which horn of the dilemma we accept. If our pres ent life be all, if we have just our three-score years and ten to play with, and then nothing ness - well, there will be no little justification for the hedonist and the libertine when he says, Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die. But if after this life, there is another one, and possibly a judgment seat, it is a vastly different matter. It behoves us to be careful in view of an unknown future, when the secrets of all hearts will be revealed. Perhaps this haunting dread of the End is the most agonising of all the problems which the Artist of Life has to face. Oh wretched man that I am, who will deliver me from the body of this death? Q3 (v.) And yet, I don't know. It may be the most agonising, but it is not the most im portant of our problems. Much the most momentous and Significant question remains when we ask with intense and breathless anxi ety how this world is governed. Is it by Chance or Fate or Natural Law, or by God? Suppose that we had to change our country and emigrate to a new and Strange one. What is one of the earliest queries we Should make? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Carl Hilty Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9781528183055 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 172
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Excerpt from Happiness Essays on the Meaning of Life Great numbers of thoughtful people are just now much perplexed to know what to make of the fafis of life, and are looking about them for some reasonable interpretation of the modern world. They cannot abandon the work of the world, but they are conscious that they have not learned the art of work. They have to fight the battle of life but they are not sure what weapons are fit for that battle. They are so beset by the cares of living that they have no time for life itself. They observe that' happiness often eludes those who most eagerly pursue it and that the meaning of life is often hidden from those whose way would seem to be most free. To this state of mind - hesitating, restless, and dissatisfied, in the world but not content to be of the world the reflefiions of Professor Hilty, as published in Switzerland and Germany, have already brought much reassurance and composure and their message seems hardly less applicable to English and American life. Here also the fever of commercialism threatens the vitality of i deal ism, and here also the art of life is lost in the pace of living. Religion to a great many e'du cated people still seems, as Bishop Butler wrote in 173 6, not so much as a subject of inquiry. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Charles Gray Shaw Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780484484817 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 216
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Excerpt from The Value and Dignity of Human Life: As Shown in the Striving and Suffering of the Individual University, where the lectures on ethics have followed the plan laid down in the table of contents. In publishing this work, I am happy in having the privilege of dedicating it to my former teacher, Professor Rudolf Eucken, whose phil osophy is becoming such a factor in American thought to-day. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: William James Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780484803687 Category : Languages : en Pages : 68
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Excerpt from Is Life Worth Living I come no more to make you laugh things now, That bear a weighty and a serious brow, Sad, high, and working, full of state and woe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Rudolf Eucken
Author: Rudolf Eucken
Author: Rudolf Eucken
Author: Rudolf Eucken
Author: Rudolf Eucken
Author: Alban Goodier
Author: William Leonard Courtney
Author: Carl Hilty
Author: Charles Gray Shaw
Author: William James
Author: Rudolf Eucken