 | Hannah Arendt - Biography - 1968 - 292 pages
...self-consistency, which we assume is mandatory to all who write and speak. For he declared in all seriousness: "I am not duty-bound to resolve the difficulties I...material that stirs them to think for themselves." He not only wanted no one to coerce him, but he also wanted to coerce no one, either by force or by... | |
 | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 378 pages
...self-consistency, which we assume is mandatory to all who write and speak. For he declared in all seriousness: "1 am not dutybound to resolve the difficulties I create....material that stirs them to think for themselves." He not only wanted no one to coerce him, but he also wanted to coerce no one, either by force or by... | |
 | Christopher Herbert - History - 2001 - 318 pages
...ideas to the needs of the contemporary world and of the cause of freedom. "May my ideas," he wrote, "always be somewhat disjunct, or even appear to contradict...material that stirs them to think for themselves" (8). CXS3 143 <^*S CHAPTER THREE [Lessing] not only wanted no one to coerce him, but he also wanted... | |
 | J. Peter Euben - Philosophy - 2009 - 224 pages
..."power" of the conclusions that matters, but something else entirely. "I am not duty bound," he writes, "to resolve the difficulties I create. May my ideas...be somewhat disjunct, or even appear to contradict each other, if only they are ideas in which readers will find material that stirs them to think for... | |
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He not only wanted no one to coerce him, but he also wanted to coerce no one, either by force or by proofs. He regarded the tyranny of those who attempt to dominate thinking by reasoning and sophistries, by compelling argumentation, as more dangerous... 