 | Giovanni Gentile - Philosophy - 1922 - 332 pages
...aside as it were, when, as Aristotle would say, all the wants of his life are appeased and life is as it were complete. It is a reality which waits for...world which is what it would be, or a world, as we say, essentially moral. For an idealistic conception such as this a true mysticism is impossible. The... | |
 | 1923 - 570 pages
...aside as it were, when, as Aristotle would say, all the wants of his life are appeased and life is as it were complete. It is a reality which waits for...world which is what it would be, or a world, as we say, essentially moral." (Op. cit., Wildon Carr's translation, p. 269 f.) In my introduction I have... | |
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It is a reality which waits for us to construct, a reality which is truly even now love and will, because it is the inward effort of the soul, its living process, not its ideal and external model. It is man himself who rises above humanity and becomes... 