Aims and Methods in Classical StudyGinn, 1888 - 47 pagina's |
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Pagina 16 - Let me not be censured for this digression as pedantic or paradoxical; for, if I have Milton against me, I have Socrates on my side. It was his labour to turn philosophy from the study of nature to speculations upon life; but the innovators whom I oppose are turning off attention from life to nature.
Pagina 16 - It was his labour to turn philosophy from the study of nature to speculations upon life; but the innovators whom I oppose are turning off attention from life to nature. They seem to think that we are placed here to watch the growth of plants or the motions of the stars; Socrates was rather of opinion, that what we had to learn was how to do good and avoid evil.
Pagina 16 - Whether we provide for action or for conversation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong: the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody truth and prove by events the reasonableness of opinions. Prudence and justice are virtues and excellences of all times and of all places ; we are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance.
Pagina 16 - Those authors, therefore, are to be read at schools* that supply most axioms of prudence, most principles of moral truth, and most materials for conversation ; and these purposes are best served by poets, orators, and historians. Let me not be censured for this digression as pedantic or paradoxical ; for, if I have Milton against me, I have Socrates on my side. It was his labour to turn philosophy from the study of nature to speculations upon life ; but the innovators...
Pagina 16 - Physiological learning is of such rare emergence, that one may know another half his life, without being able to estimate his skill in hydrostaticks or astronomy ; but his moral and prudential character immediately appears. Those authors, therefore, are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence, most principles of moral truth, and most materials for conversation ; and these purposes are best served...
Pagina 16 - But, the truth is, that the knowledge of external nature, and the sciences which that knowledge requires or includes, are not the great or the frequent business of the human mind. Whether we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing...
Pagina 16 - I oppose" (he represents Socrates as an innovator in his day,) "are turning off attention from life to Nature. They seem to think that we are placed here to watch the growth of plants, or the motions of the stars : Socrates was rather of opinion, that what we had to learn was, how to do good, and avoid evil.
Pagina 16 - ... the fruit of science, and that other great truth, that as mankind is given opportunity for meditation and for culture, the higher attributes of human character are given development, are the best indications of the nature of the real mission of science, and of the correctness of the conclusion that the use and the aim of scientific inquiry are to be sought in the region beyond and above the material world to which those studies are confined.
Pagina 15 - XJ, vice-president of the section. are to be sought in the region beyond and above the material world to which those studies are confined. It being granted that the mission of science is the amelioration of man's condition, it becomes of importance to consider the way in which our knowledge is increased. While the scientific method of advancement of science is evidently that which will yield the greatest returns, it is not the fact that...
Pagina 15 - ... we may find it to our advantage to pause, and to ask to what end is all this labor to be applied. What is the object of directing this enormous array of intellectual power into the field of scientific inquiry? Having settled upon the form of the system, and the details of the mechanism by which this development of science is to be secured with greatest ease, accuracy and rapidity, to what purpose is this great scheme to be applied ? What is the use, and what is the object, 'of systematically...