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according achievements aesthetic attitude aesthetic type appears attitude beauty become behavior biological character characterology cognition collective morality complete concept concrete consciousness culture demands determined differentiated dominant elements empathy energy epoch essence eternal ethical evaluation experienced expression fact factor feeling Fichte finally genuine Goethe grasped Gustav Landauer Hegel higher highest value historical human ideal imagination immanent individual inner insofar instance laws of value limited lives logical Max Scheler Max Weber meaning mental acts mental structure mind motives nature objectivations objective law objective value one's onesided overindividual phenomena philosophy physical Plato point of view political type positive possible principle problem psychic psychology purely reality regard relation religion scientific sense significance social type Socrates soul specific sphere spirit striving theoretic theorist thought understanding unique utilitarian valid value content value direction value experience Werner Sombart wholly
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Page 372 - I see now the truth of those (often) encouraging words, blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.
Page 163 - Nur die Ruhe in der Bewegung hält die Welt und macht den Mann; die Welt ist innerlich ruhig und still, und so muß es auch der Mann sein, der sie verstehen und als ein wirkender Teil von ihr sie widerspiegeln will. Ruhe zieht das Leben an, Unruhe verscheucht es; Gott hält sich mäuschenstill, darum bewegt sich die Welt um ihn.
Page 236 - Und steh beschämt, wenn du bekennen mußt: Ein guter Mensch, in seinem dunklen Drange, Ist sich des rechten Weges wohl bewußt.
Page 93 - Our soul, in the esthetic state, apprehends in the object (besides the qualities which can be conceptually determined) psychical accompanying qualities, and when we live in these concretely our soul expands above the real sphere of its struggle with the external world to a free and floating imaginative self. Foreign selves too can be absorbed esthetically.
Page 235 - But if we are commanded to render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's and unto God the things which are God's...
Page 213 - The highest value of the religious man may be called unity. He is mystical, and seeks to comprehend the cosmos as a whole, to relate himself to its embracing totality. Spranger defines the religious man as one "whose mental structure is permanently directed to the creation of the highest and absolutely satisfying value experience.
Page 166 - Sie steiget hernieder in tausend Gebilden, Sie schwebet auf Wassern, sie schreitet auf Gefilden, Nach heiligen Maßen erglänzt sie und schallt, Und einzig veredelt die Form den Gehalt, Verleiht ihm, verleiht sich die höchste Gewalt. Mir erschien sie in Jugend-, in Frauengestalt.
Page 133 - He sees everything as a means for self-preservation, an aid in the natural struggle for existence and a possibility to render life pleasant. He economizes goods and forces, time and space, in order to gain the maximum of useful effect for himself.
Page 92 - The best definition of empathy I have ever discovered is given by Eduard Spranger in Types of Men (trans. Pigors, Halle, 1928), pp. 92-3: "The expression used by Lipps, that empathy is objectivated enjoyment of self, is liable to be misunderstood. For, one might think that this ego is the real ego in the sense of the really desiring, suffering and acting ego. But this putting oneself in another's place and empathic action is obviously something wholly different from the esthetic attitude. In esthetic...
Page 104 - I have never maintained that characterology cannot orient itself by other elements than the dominant value direction -of the individual. I do, however, insist that the mental character of man is principally determined through the value organ by means of which he lives and shapes his own life.