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Real Philosophy
30 words from this book by Jacob Needleman
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| ecceity (p.202)from Gabriel Marcel, The Mystery of Being, trans. G.S.Fraser | _____: that is, a hereness and a nowness, a here-and-nowness; we can think of the ego in this sense, in fact, as a sort of personified here-and-now that has to defend itself actively against other personified heres-and-nows |
| prejuridical (p.202) from Gabriel Marcel, The Mystery of Being, trans. G.S. Fraser | These rights, however, has essentially a ________ character, they are from the beginning inseparably linked to the very fact of existing and thus are exposed to all sorts of more or less mortifying infringements. |
| quick (p.203) from Gabriel Marcel, The Mystery of Being, trans. G.S. Fraser | I have no protective skin at all; the ______ is exposed already. |
| cynosure (p.203) from Gabriel Marcel, The Mystery of Being, trans. G.S. Fraser | He feels himself the ______, and the extremely vulnerable ______, of neighboring eyes. |
| avowal (p.205) from Gabriel Marcel, The Mystery of Being, trans. G.S. Fraser | And neither is a taste for coffee enough in itself to create the sense of complicity and freemasonry in vice that might arise from the _______ of some much more dubious inclination. |
| invocations (p.206) from Gabriel Marcel, The Mystery of Being, trans. G.S. Fraser | One might therefore say that there is a hierarchy of choices, or rather of __________, ranging from the call upon anther which is like ringing of a bell for a servant to the quite other sort of call which is really like a kind of prayer. |
| warren (p.206) from Gabriel Marcel, The Mystery of Being, trans. G.S. Fraser | If I fear that I may have to grope my way for hours through some labyrinthine and perhaps even dangerous ________ of streets, I may have a fleeting but irresistible impression that the stranger I am appealing to is a brother eager to come to my aid. |
| weal (p.212)from Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics, trans. W.D. Ross | If all were to strive towards what is noble and strain every nerve to do the noblest deeds, everything would be as it should be for the common ____, and everyone would secure for himself the goods that are greatest, since virtue is the greatest of goods. |
| remonstrate (p.218) from Tolstoy, Esarhaddon, King of Assyria, trans. L.and A. Maude | Lailie disagreed, and gave orders that envoys should be sent to ________ with King Esarhaddon; and he dismissed the Prince from his audience. |
| disquietude (p.219) from Tolstoy, 'Esarhaddon, King of Assyria', tans. L. and A. Maude | He saw his relatives and friends led out to death; he heard the groans of those who were executed: some had their hands and feet cut off, others were flayed alive, but he showed neither ________, nor pity, nor fear. |
| inimical (p.228) from Rabindranath Tagore, Sadhana, 1913 | Exclusively viewed from the side of the obstacle, nature appears _______ to the idea of morality. |
| incandescent (p.232) from Rabindranath Tagore, Sadhana, 1913 | Not having reached its normal stage, humanity is enveloped in the ________ vapour of suffering. |
| serac(p. 328) from Rene Daumal, Mount Analogue, trans. Roger Shattuck | He will go in search of light to the ________(pl.) of the Clear Glacier. Ho opens the ice of the ______(sing.) and enters his brothers' form like a sword fitted into its sheath, a foot into its imprint. |
| galvanized (p.14) | It (real philosophy) addresses itself to the whole person, ______ by philosophical activity, aware both of his conflicting desires and of the unity given by his calling, his sense of purpose. |
| jolted (p.15) | When we are stirred by a scene of great beauty, upset by a turn in a friendship, astonished by some fact of science or history, or ____ out of our comfortable assumptions by some moral dilemma, then we become aware of the power of philosophical impulse... |
| palliative (p.15) | Much of what is called culture is simply a distraction from this unfulfilled yearning for philosophy; culture too often becomes an over-the-counter drug, a ______ that mitigates the symptoms of our need. |
| lassitude (p.34) | But this task is a laborious one, and insensibly a certain ______ leads me into the course of my ordinary life. |
| toto (p.41) | In_____, they must be ranked with the foremost discoveries in the realm of thought. |
| coppice (p.59) from Sophocles, Oedipus Rex trans. R.C. Jebb | O ye three roads, and thou secret glen- thou _____, and narrow way where three paths met- ye who drank from my hands that father's blood was mine own- remember ye, perchance, what deeds I wrought for you to see- |
| asunder (p.120) from The Thirteen Principal Upanishads, trans. R.E. Hume | He here on earth my friend, rends _____ the knot of ignorance. |
| chaplets (p.132) from Plato, The Republic trans. B.Jowett | ... three in number, each sitting upon her throne; these are the Fates, daughters of Necessity, who are clothed in white robes and have ______ upon their heads, Lachesis and Clotho and Atropos, who accompany with their voices the harmony of the sirens... |
| peradventure (p.133) from Plato, The Republic trans. B. Jowett | Let each one of us leave every other kind of knowledge and seek and follow one thing only, if _______ he may be able to learn and discern between good and evil, and so to choose always and everywhere the better life as he has opportunity. |
| Dasein (p.143) from Martin Heidegger, Being and Time, trans. J. Macquarrie and E. Robinson | The call of conscience- that is, conscience itself- has its ontological possibility in the fact that ____, in the very best of its Being, is care. |
| voles (p.148) from Lewis Thomas, The Lives of a Cell | Seen from a car window they appear as fragments, evoking memories of woodchucks, badgers, skunks, ____, snakes, sometimes the mysterious wreckage of a deer. |
| gymnasiast (p.151) from Tolstoy, the Death of Ivan Ilich, trans. Leo Wiener | At just this time the little _____ stole quietly up to his father, and walked over to his bed. |
| wool-carders (p. 176) from Heraclitus, The Cosmic Fragments trans. Philip Wheelwright | For _____ the straight way and the winding way are one and the same. |
| functionaries (p.182) from Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals, trans. F. Golffing | ...to shut temporarily the doors and windows of consciousness;...; to introduce a little quiet into our consciousness so as to make room for the nobler functions and _______ of our organism which do the governing and planning. |
| paltry (p.183) from Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals, trans. F. Golffing | Yet he will inevitably reserve a kick for those _____ windbags who promise irresponsibly and a rod for those liars who break their word even in uttering it. |
| equable (p. 192) | Jesus stresses the need for being empty oneself ('poor in spirit') so that one may be filled with the substance of a relationship, and for being ______ ('peace-making') so as to avoid aggression. |
| quelled (p.200) from Plato, The Republic, trans. B. Jowett | His noble spirit will not be _____ until he either slays or is slain; or until he hears the voice of the shepherd, that is, reason, bidding his dog bark no more. |
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