… for the sake of peace, since, defined as ratio (calculation), and not logos (cf. Leviathan , ch. 5: ‘Of reason and science’), reason also inclines us towards hubris and dominance. In situations of irrationality, it is reason’s … morals ; but those qualities of mankind, that concern their living together in peace, and unity.’ (Lev, ch. 11, 65). The science of morals does not refer to ‘good manners’ or to virtue as a moderator of passions, but to keeping one’s …
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… projects remain rather vague, though Pope acknowledged him as a contributor to the ‘Essay concerning the origin of the sciences’, and Parnell also helped Pope with his Homeric translations. At the other end of the social spectrum, but … satire is as Swiftian as it gets, the third book carries the most obviously Scriblerian overtones, with its mocking of science and learning, a subject for which the original Scriblerians had relied mostly on Arbuthnot once more, since he …
… romantique : une sociabilité orgiaque’, Travaux & documents (Université de La Réunion : Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines, 2012), p. 68-77. 2 . Lettre à M. Murray, 20 février 1816. Mémoires de Lord Byron, ed. Thomas Moore, … d’un romantisme politique européen ?’, in Gérard Raulet (ed.), Les romantismes politiques en Europe (Paris : Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, 2009), p. 417-439. 19 . Percy Bysshe Shelley, Hellas. Drame lyrique, trad. Tolan Dorian (Paris : …
… for any lack of accuracy: her children’s demands quickly drove out of her memory any conversations concerning ‘Wit, Science or Sentiment’. The role of a literary hostess frequently clashed with that of a mother, she declared, while at …