 | Annabel Patterson - 1997 - 344 oldal
...Locke's social thought. The gentlemanly sport with which Locke's metaphor opens (the understanding's searches after truth, are a sort of "Hawking and Hunting,...very pursuit makes a great part of the Pleasure") does not lead naturally into the plebeian work-ethic that keeps one from living off charity. But my... | |
 | Melvin Jonah Lasky - 752 oldal
...less sport, though a much less considerable quarry, than he that flies at nobler game. . . . ]His] searches after truth are a sort of hawking and hunting,...the very pursuit makes a great part of the pleasure. [John Locke, "Epistle to the Reader," in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690-1706; ed. Yolton,... | |
 | Barbara Fischer, Thomas C. Fox - 2005 - 438 oldal
...Mendelssohn believed that these experiences were either good or evil. Finally, for Locke, the mind's "searches after truth are a sort of hawking and hunting, wherein the very pursuit makes great part of the pleasure" (xlv; emphasis mine). But neither Descartes nor Lessing conceived of the... | |
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He that hawks at larks and sparrows has no less sport, though a much less considerable quarry, than he that flies at nobler game: and he is little acquainted with the subject of this treatise— the UNDERSTANDING— who does not know that, as it is the... 
