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Pig-Philosophy

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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The name given by Carlyle in his "Latter-Day Pamphlets," in the one on Jesuitism, to the wide-spread philosophy of the time, which regarded the human being as a mere creature of appetite instead of a creature of God endowed with a soul, as having no nobler idea of well-being than the gratification of desire—that his only Heaven, and the reverse of it his Hell.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Pig-Philosophy'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​p/pig-philosophy.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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