 | Ernst Cassirer - 1981 - 460 pages
...nature. Thanks be to Nature, then, for the incompatibility, for the heartless competitive vanity, for the insatiable desire to possess and to rule! Without them, all the excellent natural capacities of humanity would forever sleep, undeveloped."5 Thus evil itself becomes the source of good... | |
 | Annette Baier - 1985 - 338 pages
...means. "Thanks be to Nature, then, for the incompatibility, for heartless competitive vanity, for the insatiable desire to possess and to rule! Without them, all the excellent capacities of humanity would forever sleep undeveloped" (fourth thesis). 4. Alan Gibbard discusses... | |
 | Annette Baier - 1985 - 330 pages
...means. "Thanks be to Nature, then, for the incompatibility, for heartless competitive vanity, for the insatiable desire to possess and to rule! Without them, all the excellent capacities of humanity would forever sleep undeveloped" (fourth thesis). 4. Alan Gibbard discusses... | |
 | John E. Atwell - 1986 - 252 pages
...talents, hence: Thanks be to Nature ... for the incompatibility, for heartless competitive vanity, for the insatiable desire to possess and to rule! Without them, all the excellent natural capacities of humanity would forever sleep, undeveloped (ibid., 21). 204 nations will, as it were,... | |
 | John H. Zammito - 1992 - 490 pages
...put most bluntly in Kant's essay of 1 784, "Idea for a Universal History with Cosmopolitan Intent": Thanks are due to nature for [man's] quarrelsomeness,...competitive vanity, and for his insatiable desire to possess or to rule, for without them all the excellent natural faculties of mankind would forever remain undeveloped.... | |
 | Michael Hays - 1992 - 181 pages
.... . . Thanks be to Nature, then, for the incompatibility, for heartless competitive vanity, for the insatiable desire to possess and to rule! Without them, all the excellent capacities of humanity would forever sleep, undeveloped." Thus the "folly, childish vanity,. . . childish... | |
 | Stephen Mennell, John F. Rundell - 1998 - 260 pages
...Thanks he to Nature, then, for the incompatihility, for heartless competitive vanity, for the insatiahle desire to possess and to rule! Without them, all the excellent natural capacities of humanity would forever sleep, undeveloped. Man wishes concord; hut Nature knows hetter... | |
 | Andrew M. Koch - 2006 - 264 pages
...This condition produced civil society and the modern constitution. Thanks are due to nature for his quarrelsomeness, his enviously competitive vanity and for his insatiable desire to possess or to rule, for without them all the excellent natural faculties of mankind would forever remain undeveloped.20... | |
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Thanks be to Nature, then, for the incompatibility, for heartless competitive vanity, for the insatiable desire to possess and to rule! Without them, all the excellent natural capacities of humanity would forever sleep, undeveloped. 