A History of Greek Philosophy: (1969) : The fifth-century enlightenmentCambridge University Press, 1962 - Philosophy, Ancient |
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... knowledge 450 ( 7 ) All wrongdoing is involuntary : Socrates a determinist ? 459 ( 8 ) The good and the useful 462 ( 9 ) Self - knowledge and ' care of the soul ' 467 ( 10 ) Religious beliefs of Socrates : is the soul immortal ? ( 11 ) ...
... knowledge 450 ( 7 ) All wrongdoing is involuntary : Socrates a determinist ? 459 ( 8 ) The good and the useful 462 ( 9 ) Self - knowledge and ' care of the soul ' 467 ( 10 ) Religious beliefs of Socrates : is the soul immortal ? ( 11 ) ...
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... Knowledge only deserved the name if it was absolute and universal , and to attain such knowledge it was necessary to transcend experience , penetrating the veil of sense and rousing into consciousness truths that were latent in the mind ...
... Knowledge only deserved the name if it was absolute and universal , and to attain such knowledge it was necessary to transcend experience , penetrating the veil of sense and rousing into consciousness truths that were latent in the mind ...
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... knowledge ' is not easy ; but at least for him there was a reality behind appearances , whether or not we could grasp it fully . Even this was abandoned by some of the Sophists in favour of an out - and - out phenomenalism . Such ...
... knowledge ' is not easy ; but at least for him there was a reality behind appearances , whether or not we could grasp it fully . Even this was abandoned by some of the Sophists in favour of an out - and - out phenomenalism . Such ...
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... knowledge and morality ( ZN , 1439 ) . This view had been particularly strongly held in Germany , and was opposed by Grote in the powerful ch . lxvii of his History of Greece . The German historians of philosophy , he complained ...
... knowledge and morality ( ZN , 1439 ) . This view had been particularly strongly held in Germany , and was opposed by Grote in the powerful ch . lxvii of his History of Greece . The German historians of philosophy , he complained ...
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... knowledge for its own sake , divorced from practical aims , and despised the useful arts , and there is some justice in recent claims that this generalization results from the academic habit of relying too heavily on Plato and Aristotle ...
... knowledge for its own sake , divorced from practical aims , and despised the useful arts , and there is some justice in recent claims that this generalization results from the academic habit of relying too heavily on Plato and Aristotle ...
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