Sublime

We think that human beings, at least in ethical theory, all have equal rights, and that justice involves equality; Aristotle thinks that justice involves, not equality, but right proportion, which is only sometimes equality

Le philosophe anglais Anthony Ashley Cooper, comte de Shaftesbury, est souvent présenté comme « le champion moderne du stoïcisme 1 ». Il se reconnaît lui-même comme un disciple de Marc Aurèle ; Pierre Hadot n’a d’ailleurs pas manqué de souligner cette filiation 2

Poor John Field!—I trust he does not read this, unless he will improve by it—thinking to live by some derivative old-country mode in this primitive new country—to catch perch with shiners. It is good bait sometimes, I allow. With his horizon all his own, yet he a poor man, born to be poor, with his inherited Irish poverty or poor life, his Adam’s