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THE NATURE OF MAN THE PROBLEMS OF PHILOSOPHY Eachv olumei n thiss erieiss d evotetdo thee xploratoifo n a singlpeh ilosophipcraolb lemo r groupo f problemsT.h e books are large toe anloluogwah d equatsep acet o allm ajor viewpoinStesl.e ctiaornsef romc ontemporaarsy w ella s from classipchaill osophaenrdsw ,h enevetrh ei ssues unddiesrc ussion involvied eaosf o thedri sciplienxetsr,a cts sfchroolma risn t hese fieldhsa vea lsob eeni ncludeTdh.u s,s everoaflt hev olumewsi ll contaisne lectifornosm p hysicimsattsh,e maticipanssy,c hologists, theologiahniss,t oriaannsd, o therEsa.c hv olumei se ditebdy a specialwihsot h asw rittean d etailiendt roductainodn s upplied an annotatbeidb liograIpfht yh.e ries a sufficienptu blirce sponse, iti so ura im to revisteh ev olumepse riodicaalnldy b ringt he bibliograpuhpi teosd ate. 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PAULE DWARDSG, enerEadli tor PROBLEMSO F PHILOSOYP SHEIRES PAUL EDWARDS, GENERAL EDITOR THE NATURE OF MAN Readinsgesl ecetdeidt,ea dn,df urnished witah ni ntroducetsorsyab yy ERICHF ROMM and , RAMON XIRAU THEM ACMILLANC OMAPNY NEWY ORK • COLLIER-MACMILLAN LIMITLEODN DON · COPYRIGHT1©9 68B Y THE MACMILLACNO MPANY Allr ightrse serveNdo. parto f thisb ook may be repro ducedo r transmititenda ny form or by any means,e lec troniocr mechanicailn,c ludipnhgo tocopyirnegc,o rdionrg by any informatisotno ragaen d retrievsayls temw,i thout permissiino nw ritifnrgo mt heP ublisher. Libraroyf C ongresCsa taloCga rdN umber:6 8-8951 FIRSPTR INTING The Macmillan CompaNneyw, Y ork Colleir-MacmillCaann adaL td.T,o rontoO,n tario Printeidn t heU niteSdt ateosf America CONTENTS Forewd or I Introduction 3 TheU painsahds 25 Gautama 29 Sh'iInc Hhiis atmsau 33 TheB ilbe 39 Heraclitus 42 Empedocles 45 Sophocles 47 SocraatnedPs lt ao,, 49 Arsitotle 58 Lucretius 65 Epictetus 68 Plotinus 70 Sextus Empiricus 73 SainGtr egyo orfN yssa 75 SatiA nugust'i ne 77 SainTth omaAsq uinas 83 � MeisEtcekrh art 90 NicolaCuussn aus 95 MarsiFliicoi no IOO PietProom poznzai IOI GiovnanPii cdoel lMair andola I03 ErasmoufRs o tterdam I06 MartLiunt her III ThomaMso re II6 JuaLnui sV ives II9 Paracelsus I22 SainTte reosfAa v ila I26 SaiJnoth onf tChreo ss I29 Michdeel Montaigne I33 ReneD esca,.,.r tes I36 I40 BarucShpn ioza I52 BliasPeas cal GottfrWiieldh eLlemi bniz I55 �; . ·. ... vi CONTNETS I59 FranBcaicso n I62 ThomaHso bbes JohLno cke J65 DaviHdu me I69 GimabattViisctoa 174 Jean-JaRcoquusesse au I78 ImmanKuaenlt ., , I82 GeorWgi lheFlrmi edHreigcehl I9I JohaGnont tfHreiredde r I96 JereBmeyn tmh a 200 ArthSucrh openhauer 202 AugusCtoem te 206 RalpWha ldEom erson 208 LudwFiegu erbach 2I5 KarMla rx 2I9 SorKeink eergaard 225 FreidriNcieht zsche 2JI Wilml Jiaaems 234 JohDne wey 236 SigmuFnrde ud 239 CarGlu stJauvn g 250 HenBreir gson 255 EdmunHdu sserl 260 AlrfeNdo rtWhh itehead 263 MigudeelU n amuno 266 AntoonM;i.a.c hado 270 MaxS cheler 247 NicoBlearsd yaev 278 PierTreei lhdaeCr hda rdin 284 JosOer teyg Gaas set 290 MartHieni degger 296 Francisco Romero JOI LewiMsu mford 303 EriFcrho mm 306 JeaPna uSla rtre JIJ SimoWneei l 320 EdiStthe in 322 Adam Schaff 324 DaviRdi esman 326 Bilbioghrya p 329 FOREWORD Thea uthaonrtdse xttsh biioson k m aiynlf ollioncw h rono logiocradleH ro.w evienrs, o msep eciisnatla nwcheesn,e ver thewraesa s pecuinfiyic ot ft hougwheht a,v e sallitgehrteldy thceh ronolaopgpircoaTalhc ihis.s rtehaesw ohnyt hree ader wilfiln da lolft hEea stteernx attts h bee ngnigi onft hveo l umeC.l eatrhlteye ,xo tn ZBeudnd hisshmo unlotdb ep laced att hbee ngniiinfog n layc hronoloorgdiecra flwo elrleo wed. Thei dsee axeprssiendZ enB uddhiasremh, o wevae prar,t andac onqsueenocfte h ree ligainodpu hsli osopshyisctaelm s oft hEea sMtu.c hi nt hsea mwea yt,h ree adweirls let eh at thBer iteimsipihrc iasntCdso ntnitnarela tiotnsoa ftl hies sev enteeanntedgh ih teecnettnuhr airerese specgtriovueptleoyd gethIetsr e.e mceodr rteoc atpc Hlee gerli gahftt Kearn t be causHee gel's iddeevaesl aonbpdco rtiht itchiKeza en tian system. Thee dtiorwsa nt toP rtohfaenPskas uoElrd warfdosar numbeorfc ritaincdha elfl upslu gtgieos;fn usrtherwmeo re thaMnrks S.a ndSraane drs hfeohrre lwpi tthyi pntgh mea nu scrainptdD ennis Rofdoritrgh uteer za nsloaftt hiteoe nx ts ofJ uaLnu iVsi ves. INTRODUCTION THET ITLoEft haisn thogliovgreyis ts oem anqyu estFioorn s. mosotft hteh insok feG rreeakn tiqoufit thMyei ,d dlAeg es, andu pt ot hpee rioofKd a nitwt,a ss elifd-teet nvhatth eirse smoethicnagld l heumanna tusroem,e thtihnapgth ilosophi calslpye akcionngs titthu"ete esss eonfmc aen .T"h erwee re varivoiuwessa bout cwohnastt itthuietsse sse nbcuteth, e re wasa greetmheantt seuscshe enaxcnise -s tthiastt os ya,t hat theirsseo mheitgnb yv irotfuw eh imcahn i msa n. Budtu ritnhlges a th undryeeda orsre, v elnno getrih,st r a ditional vtioeb ewq ubeesgtaiOnon neer de.a sfoontr h is changwea sth iecn reaesimpnhga sgiisvt eon htihsect aoalrp i proatcomh a nA.n e xaimnatoifto hnhe i osrtyo fh umayn it suggetshtamsta ni no ure pocihs dsioff erfernotm imann previoonuetssh aittu niersa litsoat siscu tmheam te ni ne very histoerpiohcc haavle h adi nc ommotnh aets sewnhciecc ha n bec all"ehdu mnaant .u"rTe he hisatpoprriocwaaaclsrh e in forcientd ih sce ntbuyrs yt udiinte hsfie e lodfc ultlau nrtahro pology. Thoeft hsest ou-dcya plrliemdi pteiovpelh eass showsnu cah d iverosfic tuys tovmasl,u feesle,ig nsa,n d thougthhtamsta nya nthropoalrorgiiavstett dhs ec oncept thamta n isa sab b olransn hke oefpt a poenrw hiceha cchu l turwer itiettsse xTto.t heisflneu encoefs thshiteo lra incda anthropoalpopgriocawacalhs ae dsd etdh aotft heev olution aroyn e, wahlistcoeh n ded ttoh bese hlaiikneae f c ommon "humanna tuer.L"a maracnkdm ,o rpeer cisDealryw,ai nnd othbeoirl ogsihsotwste hda atll li gv bieninagrsse u bjteoc t evoluticohnaanMrgoyed .ne p rhyshiacussnd ertatkode enm onstrattheat th peh ysiwcoarlla dl seov olavnedsc hanges. Withoauntym etapwheoc ra nsy a thatth teo taolfit thye worlidsa totailnim toyv emean tto,t atlhiatatys,A .N . Whiteheads yaw,fi onsudi ltdsi enals fat toef" preos.cs" Oneo thfearc tcoorni tubrtetdot htee ndetnodc eyn tyh e phenonmoenof a fi xehdu manna tuorfae n,e sseonfc em an. 4 THEN ATUREO FM AN Thec oncoefph tu manna tuhraebs,e eanb usseood f nt,eh as been aussa e sdh ieblehdi nwdh icthh weo risntj usatriec es committtheawdth, e wne h eairtm entiowneae rdie n celdi n tos erioduosulibsyttm oravla luaen,de veints se n.sI ent he namoefh umannat urPel ato, Aarnimdso tsott lotefh, i tnhke erusp t o tehieg hht eceennttury dselfaev;ne1idr neiy dt s namen,a tiloinsaamn dr aciwsemr e biontr hnne;am e oaf supposseudpleyrA iroyran na tutrheeN, a ziesx tmeinrated morteh asnim xi lolnhi uman sbi;en ti hnnegam eo f cae rtain abstnraatcuttr hewe,h imtaen f eels stuop eNtrehigeor troh ,e powertfotu hlhe e lpltehssets r,o ntgh wete oa "kH.u manna tuer,i"no ur dtaoyoosf ,th eanbs e emna dteo s ertyhepe u r posoefs satnasdto ec iety. Is neicte stsoca ormye tcoo ntchleut shaittoh neir nse o h u mann atuSruec?ah n a ssumpsteieomtnso i mplaysm any dangaesrt sh oishnee reinntt h ceo ncepatfi xeondfat urIef. thewreer neo e ssecnocmem otnoa lmle ,ni mta y abreg ued thecroeu ldn oub nei otfym ent,h ecroeu bledn ov aloure normvsa lfiodr maelntl,h ecroeu nlodet v ebnet hsec ience ofp sychoolrao ngtyh ropwohliohcgahyas ,s i tssu bjmeacttt er "mna.A"r ew en otth ecna ugbhett wetewnou ndesiarnadb le dangeraosuspsut mi:ot nhsree acatriyvo ineowf a ssumai ng fixed uannadl tehruambanlneat uraen,dt hree latiovnies tic thalte atdots h ceo nclutshiamotan ns harweihst o thmeern onlhyia sn atolma incpdha ysiolaotgtirciablu tes? Perhiawtpo su lbe dh elptfodu ils tinbgeutiwstehhec eno n cepotft he naotreu srsee,on fcm ea,na ntdh aotfc ertain at tributmeasnc oomfm otnoa laln,yd e t wihnit chhe mselves mayn octo nstaif tuucltolen coefpt th nea tuorre esosfe nce man. cWaecn a tlhle esses enattitarli btuhtaiettss o s, ya ,a ttri buttehsab te lotnomg a nq uam ana,n dy edti stintghueims h frotmh "ee sseonfmc aen"w, h ich may cotmhpeerssies e all sentaitatlr iobrum toersea ,n d mpaoys sibbedl eyfi naesd • somethinwgh iftcrhhvoe am r iaotutsr ifboultleosw . Them ospto puolaftr h eastet ribtuhtoeen se w eifi sn d amontgh Ger eek philtohspeoh piohlpeohrsesor,fts h Mei d dlAeg easn,dt hose eoifg htthceeee nnttuhcr uyl,m iniant ing ... Exceptaimoonnsg Gtrheee wkosul db et hSet oidcesf,e nders 1 oft heeq ualoifat lyml e n;i nt hRee naisssaunchchue m,na sits as ErasmTuhso,m aMso reo,rJ uaLnu iVsi v.e s
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