 | Josiah Rhinehart Sypher - History - 1872 - 336 pages
...exciting in its progress and promise, so fascinating in the varied beauty of its revelations,—that it draws to itself an ever-increasing amount of intellectual...complete and reasoned synthesis of the facts of the universe—on them it may be especially urged how poorly equipped a man comes to such a study, however... | |
 | Henry Sidgwick, Arthur Sidgwick - Culture - 1904 - 400 pages
...phase of the progress of humanity, and his limited sympathy with the thoughts and feelings, labours and aspirations, of his fellow-men. And if there be...liberal education, the crown of the highest culture, is Philosophy—meaning by Philosophy the sustained effort, if it be no more than an effort, to frame... | |
 | Jerome B. Schneewind - History - 1977 - 490 pages
...and there is in the 1867 essay on 'The Theory of Classical Education' a definition of philosophy as 'the sustained effort, if it be no more than an effort,...and reasoned synthesis of the facts of the universe' (1867c, 316) which encapsulates his mature view of philosophy. There is therefore good, if not conclusive,... | |
 | Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn - History - 1999 - 404 pages
...put it, "The summit of a liberal education ... is Philosophy — meaning by Philosophy the sustained effort ... to frame a complete and reasoned synthesis of the facts of the universe."6 The new universal education remained intellectual and academic, not practical and professional.... | |
 | Bart Schultz - Philosophy - 2004 - 886 pages
...crow n of the highest culture, is Philosophy - meaning hy Philosophy the sustained effort, if it he no more than an effort, to frame a complete and reasoned synthesis of the facts ot the universe - on them it may he especially urged how poorh equipped a man comes to such a study,... | |
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... draws to itself an ever-increasing \ amount of intellectual energy, so that the intellectual man who has been trained without it must feel at every turn his inability to comprehend thoroughly the present phase of the progress of humanity, and his... 