A History of Greek Philosophy: (1969) : The fifth-century enlightenmentCambridge University Press, 1962 - Philosophy, Ancient |
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... means of satisfying the demands of selfishness and vanity ; and that the only way out was that of Socrates , who ... mean- while propagated immoral practical doctrines . Gravitating to Athens as the Prytaneion of Greece , they were there ...
... means of satisfying the demands of selfishness and vanity ; and that the only way out was that of Socrates , who ... mean- while propagated immoral practical doctrines . Gravitating to Athens as the Prytaneion of Greece , they were there ...
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... means an invention of Plato.2 A further appraisal came in a long and well - reasoned essay by Sir Alexander Grant . His conclusions were that Grote had succeeded in disposing of the former sweeping denunciations of the Sophists , but ...
... means an invention of Plato.2 A further appraisal came in a long and well - reasoned essay by Sir Alexander Grant . His conclusions were that Grote had succeeded in disposing of the former sweeping denunciations of the Sophists , but ...
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... means universal . The rejection of divine agency is confined to a section of the educated and intellectual . When in Plato's lifetime ( 373 B.C. ) the Achaean city of Helike was overwhelmed by a combined earthquake and tidal wave ...
... means universal . The rejection of divine agency is confined to a section of the educated and intellectual . When in Plato's lifetime ( 373 B.C. ) the Achaean city of Helike was overwhelmed by a combined earthquake and tidal wave ...
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... means of fulfilling it . Thucydides ( 2.97.3–4 ) notes a custom of the Odrysians in Thrace which is the direct opposite of one observed in Persia . 3 As we shall see ( pp . 119 f . below ) , Socrates did not agree that a law was any the ...
... means of fulfilling it . Thucydides ( 2.97.3–4 ) notes a custom of the Odrysians in Thrace which is the direct opposite of one observed in Persia . 3 As we shall see ( pp . 119 f . below ) , Socrates did not agree that a law was any the ...
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... means poet . With poetry went music , for the lyric poet was his own accompanist . Athenaeus quotes a line of Aeschylus about a sophistes playing the lyre to illustrate his statement that ' all who practise the art of mousiké used to be ...
... means poet . With poetry went music , for the lyric poet was his own accompanist . Athenaeus quotes a line of Aeschylus about a sophistes playing the lyre to illustrate his statement that ' all who practise the art of mousiké used to be ...
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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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