There is another sort of progress from the general notions of Socrates, who asked simply, 'what is friendship?' 'what is temperance?' 'what is courage?' as in the Lysis, Charmides, Laches, to the transcendentalism of Plato, who, in the second stage of his philosophy, sought to find the nature of knowledge in a prior and future state of existence.
The existence of the virtues without the possession of knowledge in the higher or philosophical sense is admitted to be possible.
Again, perception is generated at the same time as the perceiving subject, for it comes into existence at the same time as the animal.
If, however, our definition was not complete, if those things only are properly called relative in the case of which relation to an external object is a necessary condition of existence, perhaps some explanation of the dilemma may be found.
A struggle for existence inevitably follows from the high rate at which all organic beings tend to increase.
The action of climate seems at first sight to be quite independent of the struggle for existence; but in so far as climate chiefly acts in reducing food, it brings on the most severe struggle between the individuals, whether of the same or of distinct species, which subsist on the same kind of food.
Then they sighed: "O that there were heavenly paths by which to steal into another
existence and into happiness!" Then they contrived for themselves their by-paths and bloody draughts!
Further, as we have already seen, entire sections of the ruling classes are, by the advance of industry, precipitated into the proletariat, or are at least threatened in their conditions of existence. These also supply the proletariat with fresh elements of enlightenment and progress.
The lower middle class, the small manufacturer, the shopkeeper, the artisan, the peasant, all these fight against the bourgeoisie, to save from extinction their existence as fractions of the middle class.
The joint result of these circumstances would be, that a temporary combination of a few States to intermit the appointment of senators, could neither annul the
existence nor impair the activity of the body; and it is not from a general and permanent combination of the States that we can have any thing to fear.
In effect, however, I admitted the
existence of the "monster." My article was warmly discussed, which procured it a high reputation.
From the standpoint from which the science of history now regards its subject on the path it now follows, seeking the causes of events in man's freewill, a scientific enunciation of those laws is impossible, for however man's free will may be restricted, as soon as we recognize it as a force not subject to law, the
existence of law becomes impossible.
When examined at a later date, there appeared to be nothing heretical in the wording of the text, some authors even went so far as to deny that the heretical propositions had any real existence. However it was, these insignificant disputes gave rise to two parties in the Gallican Church--the Jansenists and the Jesuits.
In his opinion, the existence of my child would excite a moral repugnance, in comparison with which the question of money would be as nought, and the whole affair would be broken off at once, and he was right.
If I have no ties and no affections, hatred and vice must be my portion; the love of another will destroy the cause of my crimes, and I shall become a thing of whose
existence everyone will be ignorant.
