principium

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We saw before that hatred and wickedness are conditioned by egoism, and egoism rests on the entanglement of knowledge in the principium individuationis.

From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Schopenhauer, Arthur

He sees not the thing-in-itself but the phenomenon in time and space, the principium individuationis, and in the other forms of the principle of sufficient reason.

From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Schopenhauer, Arthur

He adds, with a true Roman's antipathy to Greek �sthetics and their flimsy screen for sensuality, "Bene ergo Ennius, flagitii principium est nudare inter cives corpora."

From A Problem in Greek Ethics Being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion by Symonds, John Addington

It sees through the form of the phenomenon, the principium individuationis.

From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Schopenhauer, Arthur