 | 1881 - 1092 Seiten
...and laboured affectation : — The great problem of the shifting relation between passion and dutj' is clear to no man who is capable of apprehending...must accept the sway of a passion against which he had struggled as a trespass, is one for which we have no master key that will fit all cases. The casuists... | |
 | Carol Gilligan - 1993 - 220 Seiten
...viable resolution, ends the novel by drowning Maggie, but not without first cautioning the reader that "the shifting relation between passion and duty is...clear to no man who is capable of apprehending it." Since "the mysterious complexity of our life" cannot be "laced up in formulas," moral judgment cannot... | |
 | Daniel Cottom - 1987 - 276 Seiten
...individuals as utterly unique subjects also pulverizes them into the most general of abstractions: The great problem of the shifting relation between...the possibility of a renunciation that will carry an efficacy, and must accept the sway of a passion against which he had struggled as a trespass, is... | |
 | George Eliot - 1995 - 500 Seiten
...was hidden in a darkness all the more impenetrable because each immediate step was clogged with evil. question, whether the moment has come in which a man...must accept the sway of a passion against which he had struggled as a trespass, is one for which we have no masterkey that will fit all cases. The casuists... | |
 | William Vitek - 2010 - 283 Seiten
...community. Eliot's criticism of the philosophy of her day is relevant to our discussion here. She says, "The great problem of the shifting relation between passion and duty is clear to no man who can apprehend it. ... The casuists have become a byword of reproach; but their perverted spirit of... | |
 | John Richetti, John Bender, Deirdre David, Michael Seidel - 1994 - 1094 Seiten
...the book where Maggie turns away from Stephen, whom she desires, and back to her family and her duty. "The great problem of the shifting relation between...to no man who is capable of apprehending it." The inexhaustible tussle is, it seems, all that wisdom can consist in; the impossibility of any decided... | |
 | William A. Cohen - 1996 - 276 Seiten
...ability of an audience to generalize correctly on the basis of novelistic or scandalous particulars: The great problem of the shifting relation between...man who is capable of apprehending it: the question ... is one for which we have no master-key that will fit all cases. The casuists have become a byword... | |
 | Roger Shattuck - 1997 - 388 Seiten
...heroine, and Eliot, her creator, know that a major decision like renunciation will not solve everything. "The great problem of the shifting relation between...clear to no man who is capable of apprehending it" (Book VII, Chapter 2). This profoundly paradoxical sentence deserves long consideration and leads us... | |
 | George Eliot - 1909 - 424 Seiten
...immediate step was clogged with evil. The great problem of the shifting relation between passion and duly is clear to no man who is capable of apprehending...must accept the sway of a passion against which he had struggled as a trespass, is one for which we have no master-key that will fit all cases. The casuists... | |
 | George Eliot - 2002 - 130 Seiten
...mixed condition of things which is the sign, not of hopeless confusion, but of struggling order. —ROM The great problem of the shifting relation between...no man who is capable of apprehending it. ... the truth, that moral judgments must remain false and hollow, unless they are checked and enlightened by... | |
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The great problem of the shifting relation between passion and duty is clear to no man who is capable of apprehending it : the question whether the moment has come in which a man has fallen below the possibility of a renunciation that will carry any efficacy,... 
