 | Andrew Bailey - 2002 - 1002 pàgines
...This quotation comes from Pope's Essay on Man, Epistle I: "All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord,...reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right." the "naturalistic fallacy" in ethics,5 where some think, for example, that "good" is just what... | |
 | Amanda Anderson, Joseph Valente - 2002 - 364 pàgines
...hardly be seen as unintended on Pope's part.) Pope writes, All Nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord,...reason's spite, One truth is clear: Whatever IS, is RIGHT. (An Essay on Man, 289-94) Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night; God said, let Newton be!... | |
 | Russell T. McCutcheon - 2003 - 346 pàgines
...of Pope's Essay on Man, we read those often cited lines: All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee; All Chance, Direction, which thou canst not see; All Discord,...Reason's spite, One truth is clear, "Whatever is, is RIGHT." Or, as Voltaire phrased it himself, near the close of an article in his Philosophical Dictionary... | |
 | Paul Hyland, Olga Gomez, Francesca Greensides - 2003 - 496 pàgines
...but, because it is God's creation, it must be perfect: All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee; All Chance, Direction, which thou canst not see; All Discord,...Reason's spite, One truth is clear, 'Whatever is, is right'. (Essay on Man, Epistle I, 11. 289-94) Although the Essay on Man was later to come under attack... | |
 | Matthew Pinsker - 2003 - 274 pàgines
...from the first epistle of Pope's famous "Essay on Man." All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord,...reason's spite, One truth is clear, whatever is, is right. must be wrong.'" The skeptical English gentleman left charmed, calling his encounter with Lincoln... | |
 | John Carrington - 2003 - 344 pàgines
...Toryism, he saw a benevolent and rational deity directing all: All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord,...reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right. His gift for neat parallelisms - which became an especial feature of his style and are so perfectly... | |
 | Peter Van Inwagen - 2004 - 334 pàgines
...from Pope's "Essay on Man" (Epistle I, ll. 289 et seq.): All nature is but art unknown to thee, All chance, direction which thou canst not see; All discord,...reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right. I don't see how anyone could believe this. It seems to me to be a wholly fantastic thesis. Do... | |
 | Alan M. Dershowitz - 2004 - 282 pàgines
...stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul; . . . All Nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord,...reason's spite, One truth is clear, whatever is, is right. If God is perfect (or right) and if God created nature, it would follow that "whatever is, is... | |
 | David Benatar - 2004 - 422 pàgines
...not a genuine optimism. Consider this statement of it: All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord,...reason's spite, One truth is clear, WHATEVER IS, IS RIGHT. (Pope, Essay on Man. 1733) This is positive evaluation indeed. But what about our first criterion,... | |
 | Johann Georg Sulzer - 2005 - 152 pàgines
...any other sphere. Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear: Safe in the hand of one disposing Pow'r. Or in the natal, or the mortal hour. All nature is...reason's spite. One truth is clear. "Whatever IS. is RIGHT." Like an amputated Polypus—or like Pangloss lovesick in the most graphic sense—Sulzer must,... | |
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Or in the natal, or the mortal hour. All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good: And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth... 
