The Study of PhilosophyCollegiate Press, 1987 - 340 pages |
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Page 324
... suffering and some do not even ask the question . The majority go down with a cry of revenge and a curse on their lips . But in the intellectual scheme of his drama , the tragedian poses the question for them and takes account of even ...
... suffering and some do not even ask the question . The majority go down with a cry of revenge and a curse on their lips . But in the intellectual scheme of his drama , the tragedian poses the question for them and takes account of even ...
Page 326
... suffering makes no sense at all to Job , who rejects the thesis that sin is the only cause of suffering . It is all too evident , he argues , that human conduct is not justly rewarded or punished on earth , and he cites his own ...
... suffering makes no sense at all to Job , who rejects the thesis that sin is the only cause of suffering . It is all too evident , he argues , that human conduct is not justly rewarded or punished on earth , and he cites his own ...
Page 331
... suffering cannot be explained in any rational way ) , there is only one solution open , and this is to suggest , as in fact tragedy does , a higher rationality . This is the failure of tragedy - not indeed an ignoble failure , but a ...
... suffering cannot be explained in any rational way ) , there is only one solution open , and this is to suggest , as in fact tragedy does , a higher rationality . This is the failure of tragedy - not indeed an ignoble failure , but a ...
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It began here | 11 |
And so I go about the world | 29 |
Aristotle and the art of thinking | 67 |
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