Conduct of life; English essays -- 20th century; Ethics; Philosophy
It must be remembered that “intuition” is a word with all sorts of
philosophical meanings, in addition to its psychological meanings
(which were studied some years ago by Dearborn in the _Psychological
Review_). For the ancient philosophic writers, from the Neo-Platonists
on, it was usually a sort of special organ for coming in contact with
supernatural realities; for Bergson it is at once a method superior to
the intellect for obtaining knowledge and a method of æsthetic
contemplation; for Croce it is solely æsthetic, and art is at once
“intuition” and “expression” (by which he means the formation of
internal images). For Croce, when the mind “intuits” by “expressing,”
the result is art. There is no “religion” for Croce except philosophy.
Footnote 88:
The modern literature of the Mysteries, especially of Eleusis, is very
extensive and elaborate in many languages. I will only mention here a
small and not very recent book, Cheetham’s Hulsean Lectures on _The
Mysteries Pagan and Christian_ (1897) as for ordinary readers
sufficiently indicating the general significance of the Mysteries.
There is, yet briefer, a more modern discussion of the matter in the
Chapter on “Religion” by Dr. W. R. Inge in R. W. Livingstone’s useful
collection of essays, _The Legacy of Greece_ (1921).
CHAPTER VI
THE ART OF MORALS
I
NO man has ever counted the books that have been written about morals.
No subject seems so fascinating to the human mind. It may well be,
indeed, that nothing imports us so much as to know how to live. Yet it
can scarcely be that on any subject are the books that have been written
more unprofitable, one might even say unnecessary.
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