supersensible
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The best way to save America, concludes Canon Bell, is to raise up an elite, "servants of supersensible purpose," who will help the Common Man to perceive "what the good life is."
From Time Magazine Archive
There is as yet no Greek language of philosophy; a long development will bring it forth however; Aristotle will deracinate the last image of Homer, and leave the Greek tongue supersensible.
From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Snider, Denton Jaques
He has to express himself in images taken from the sensible world, even while pushing them beyond into the supersensible.
From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Snider, Denton Jaques
Moreover, Proteus and Eidothea represent the two sides, the supersensible and the sensible, the latter of which must be transcended and the former grasped, ere return be possible.
From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Snider, Denton Jaques
Thus both Future and Past are given their place in the supersensible realm, both being abstractions from the Present, which is the reality, the world of the senses.
From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Snider, Denton Jaques
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