The Works of Ralph Cudworth |
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Author:
| Cudworth, Ralph |
ISBN: | 978-0-217-28816-3 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2009 |
Publisher: | General Books LLC
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $22.63 |
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: in it all, without any philosophic truth; the advantages of mankind being so notoriously conspicuous above those of brutes. But as for evils in general, from whence the Atheist would conclude the God of the Theist to be either impotent or envious; it hath been already declared, that the true original of...
More DescriptionPurchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: in it all, without any philosophic truth; the advantages of mankind being so notoriously conspicuous above those of brutes. But as for evils in general, from whence the Atheist would conclude the God of the Theist to be either impotent or envious; it hath been already declared, that the true original of them is from the necessity of imperfect beings, and the incompossibility of things; but that the Divine art and skill most of all appeareth in bonifying these evils, and making them, like discords in music, to contribute to the harmony of the whole, and the good of particular persons. Moreover, a great part -of those evils, which men are afflicted with, is not from the reality of things, but only from their own fancy and opinions, according to that of the moralist, Tapairim c avOpuirovc 01 To. irpayjUara, aXXa To irept rwv irpayjua- SoyjKara. It is not things themselves, that disturb men, but only their own opinions concerning things.?And therefore it being much in our own power to be freed from these, Providence is not to be blamed upon the account of them. Pain is many times nearly linked with pleasure, according to that Socratic fable, That when Qod could not reconcile thejr contrary natures (as he would) he tied them head and tail together. And good men knpw, that pain is not the evil of the man, but only of the part so affected (as Socrates also), To aXyov v iv rip iriA f.uvu, It goes no further than the leg where it is.?But this is many times very serviceable to free us from Epictet. in Euchiridio, cap. v. Vide cliam M. Antouiuum, lib. iv. . 3. p. 97. ct lib. v. . xix. p. 159. h Apud Platou. in Phiedonc, p. 376. the greater evils of the mind; upon which all our happiness dependeth. To the Atheists, who acknowledge no malum culpee, no evil of fault (tu...