Literary notes about systems (AI summary)
In literature, the term “systems” is employed in remarkably diverse ways, reflecting the multifaceted nature of human thought and activity. In some works, it denotes comprehensive philosophical or ethical frameworks—a “system of morals” or a “system of philosophy” as seen in texts by Santayana [1, 2, 3] and Plato [4, 5]—while in other contexts it refers to structured religious or initiation doctrines, such as the intricate arrangements of Eastern thought [6, 7, 8, 9]. Meanwhile, “systems” also describes social, political, and economic structures in both historical analyses and contemporary social critiques [10, 11, 12, 13, 14], and extends into the technical realm by detailing computer operating systems, networks, and communication protocols [15, 16, 17, 18, 19]. This broad usage illustrates how the concept of “systems” serves as a versatile metaphor bridging the abstract and the tangible, from moral architectures to the physical infrastructure of technology [20, 21].
- As extremes are said to meet, so we may say that a radical position is often the point of de parture for opposite systems.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana - Two great systems offered, in two legitimate directions, what are doubtless the final and radical accounts of physical being.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana - It has kept morality pure—free from that admixture of worldly and partisan precepts with which less pessimistic systems are encumbered.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana - And as in other systems of theology and philosophy, that of which we know least has the greatest interest to us.
— from Timaeus by Plato - They do not perceive the want of connexion in their own writings, or the gaps in their systems which are visible enough to those who come after them.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato - A similar vein of extravagant religious duty is found in the Essenian, Budhist, and Pythagorean systems.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves - This idea is first inculcated in the Upanishads, and is recognized in Hindu systems of philosophy.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis - In all the ancient systems of initiation the candidate was shrouded in darkness, as a preparation for the reception of light.
— from The symbolism of Freemasonry : by Albert Gallatin Mackey - Of the many systems of religion in the world, but few are based upon the teachings of one person.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis - —Different systems.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - Those agricultural systems, on the contrary, really, and in the end, discourage their own favourite species of industry.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith - Our society to-day represents only the cultivating systems, the cultivated man is lacking.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Nietzsche - Agreeably to the remark already made, the national and State systems are to be regarded as ONE WHOLE.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton and John Jay and James Madison - The [35] slave under all the systems was to be surrendered to the relatives of the slain man, that they might do with him what they liked.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes - Unlike other operating systems, Debian is safe from these threats.
— from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson - On EXEC-PC, look under MS-DOS systems.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno - Potentially, we will be able to find and retrieve information from anywhere on the global grid of connected systems.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno - I think about security systems and how to break them.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow - Other systems send entries line by line, that is, whenever you press ENTER or Return.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno - Just as many physical suns and stars roam in space, so there are also countless astral solar and stellar systems.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda - And in ships more primitive than this men had swept through the star systems nearest Earth in the outward expansion of the First Millennium.
— from The Lani People by Jesse F. Bone
