A History of Greek Philosophy: (1969) : The fifth-century enlightenmentCambridge University Press, 1962 - Philosophy, Ancient |
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... human affairs , there are nevertheless essential connexions between the Preso- cratic tradition and the new ... human mind , as independent and unvarying standards to which human perceptions and human actions can and must be referred ...
... human affairs , there are nevertheless essential connexions between the Preso- cratic tradition and the new ... human mind , as independent and unvarying standards to which human perceptions and human actions can and must be referred ...
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... human plane , are more abstract and theoretical , raising fundamental questions of human nature . Are all men naturally equal ? Is the existence of rulers and subjects , masters and servants , merely a matter of practical convenience ...
... human plane , are more abstract and theoretical , raising fundamental questions of human nature . Are all men naturally equal ? Is the existence of rulers and subjects , masters and servants , merely a matter of practical convenience ...
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... human society and the order of nature , involving the conception of the universe as a divinely constructed and close - knit organism , which goes back to Plato and beyond . Equally deeply rooted in Greek thought was the rival philosophy ...
... human society and the order of nature , involving the conception of the universe as a divinely constructed and close - knit organism , which goes back to Plato and beyond . Equally deeply rooted in Greek thought was the rival philosophy ...
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... human faculties . Doubts of the adequacy of our equipment to attain truth were first voiced in a religious context in contrast to the clarity of divine vision , ' but in Ionians like Anaxagoras and Democritus we see rather the modesty ...
... human faculties . Doubts of the adequacy of our equipment to attain truth were first voiced in a religious context in contrast to the clarity of divine vision , ' but in Ionians like Anaxagoras and Democritus we see rather the modesty ...
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... human life , was the product of a kind of fermentation set up by the action of heat on damp or putrefying matter , and social and political groups were formed by agreement as man's only effective form of defence against non - human ...
... human life , was the product of a kind of fermentation set up by the action of heat on damp or putrefying matter , and social and political groups were formed by agreement as man's only effective form of defence against non - human ...
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A History of Greek Philosophy: The fifth-century enlightenment William Keith Chambers Guthrie No preview available - 1962 |
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