Samuel Johnson, BiographerCornell University Press, 1978 - 237 Seiten |
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... moral perceptions valuable to all men . Johnson is a great moral interpreter , and the brilliance of his judgments , the moral aphorisms which critics such as Walter Raleigh and Mark Long- aker have disinterred from his biographies as ...
... moral perceptions valuable to all men . Johnson is a great moral interpreter , and the brilliance of his judgments , the moral aphorisms which critics such as Walter Raleigh and Mark Long- aker have disinterred from his biographies as ...
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... moral biographer's task is particularly difficult because though presumably judging actions he is actually judging inten- tions : " The morality of an action depends on the motive from which we act . If I fling half a crown to a beggar ...
... moral biographer's task is particularly difficult because though presumably judging actions he is actually judging inten- tions : " The morality of an action depends on the motive from which we act . If I fling half a crown to a beggar ...
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... moral superiority and his heightened awareness , we are reminded that Savage was actually an extraordinary man and that we are not likely to have his knowledge , wit , or genius , and that even if our actual “ Capacities or Attainments ...
... moral superiority and his heightened awareness , we are reminded that Savage was actually an extraordinary man and that we are not likely to have his knowledge , wit , or genius , and that even if our actual “ Capacities or Attainments ...
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Preface 95 | 15 |
Conclusion | 214 |
Bibliography | 221 |
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