Conduct of life; English essays -- 20th century; Ethics; Philosophy
Maurice Croiset devotes a few luminous critical pages to Plotinus in
the Croisets’ _Histoire de la Littérature Grecque_, vol. V, pp.
820-31. As an extended account of Plotinus, from a more
enthusiastically sympathetic standpoint, there are Dr. Inge’s
well-known Gifford Lectures, _The Philosophy of Plotinus_ (1918); I
may also mention a careful scholastic study, _L’Esthétique de Plotin_
(1913), by Cochez, of Louvain, who regards Plotinus as the climax of
the objective æsthetics of antiquity and the beginning of the road to
modern subjective æsthetics.
Footnote 93:
_Ennead_, bk. III, chap. VI. I have mostly followed the translation of
Stephen McKenna.
Footnote 94:
St. Augustine, _De Civitate Dei_, bk. IV, chap. XXI.
Footnote 95:
Kant was habitually cold and calm. But he was very fond of dried
fruits and used to have them specially imported for him by his friend
Motherby. “At one time he was eagerly expecting a vessel with French
fruits which he had ordered, and he had already invited some friends
to a dinner at which they were to be served. The vessel was, however,
delayed a number of days by a storm. When it arrived, Kant was
informed that the provisions had become short on account of the delay,
and that the crew had eaten his fruit. Kant was so angry that he
declared they ought rather to have starved than to have touched it.
Surprised at this irritation, Motherby said, ‘Professor, you cannot be
in earnest.’ Kant answered, ‘I am really in earnest,’ and went away.
Afterwards he was sorry.” (Quoted by Stuckenberg, _The Life of Kant_,
p. 138.) But still it was quite in accordance with Kantian morality
that the sailors should have starved.
Footnote 96:
Georg von Gizycki, _Die Ethik David Hume’s_, p. 11.
Footnote 97:
F. C. Sharp, _Mind_ (1912), p. 388.
Footnote 98:
Shaftesbury held that Locke swept away too much and failed to allow
for inborn instincts (or “senses,” as he sometimes called them)
developing naturally. We now see that he was right.
Footnote 99:
There is no need to refer to the value of salt, and therefore the
appreciation of the flavour of salt, to primitive people. Still
to-day, in Spain, _sal_ (salt) is popularly used for a more or less
intellectual and moral quality which is highly admired.
Footnote 100:
Dr. C. S. Myers has touched on this point in _Reports of the Cambridge
Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits_, vol. II, part II, chap.
IV; also “The Taste-Names of Primitive Peoples,” _British Journal of
Psychology_, June, 1904.
Footnote 101:
Dr. Georg von Gizycki, _Die Philosophie Shaftesbury’s_ (1876); and the
same author’s _Die Ethik David Hume’s_ (1878).
Footnote 102:
It should be added that Croce is himself moving in this direction, and
in, for instance, _Il Carattere di Totalità della Espressione
Artistica_ (1917), he recognises the universality of art.
Footnote 103:
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