A History of Greek Philosophy: The fifth-century enlightenmentUniversity Press, 1962 - Philosophy, Ancient |
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... nature . Are all men naturally equal ? Is the existence of rulers and subjects , masters and servants , merely a matter of practical convenience , or is it grounded in ineradicable natural differences ? In studying the various answers ...
... nature . Are all men naturally equal ? Is the existence of rulers and subjects , masters and servants , merely a matter of practical convenience , or is it grounded in ineradicable natural differences ? In studying the various answers ...
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... nature , involving the conception of the universe as a divinely constructed and close - knit organism , which goes ... nature as the antithesis of law , wrongly , said Plato , for nature itself , as the product of rational design , is ...
... nature , involving the conception of the universe as a divinely constructed and close - knit organism , which goes ... nature as the antithesis of law , wrongly , said Plato , for nature itself , as the product of rational design , is ...
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... nature ( which they called by the single name of chance or fate ) and assigned the causes of particular things to necessity , without admixture of final causes , seems to me ( so far as one may conjecture from the fragmentary remains of ...
... nature ( which they called by the single name of chance or fate ) and assigned the causes of particular things to necessity , without admixture of final causes , seems to me ( so far as one may conjecture from the fragmentary remains of ...
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... nature . The cosmogonies themselves assisted in banishing divine agents from the world , not because they were evolutionary rather than creative - the idea of divine creation was never prominent in Greek religion - but because they made ...
... nature . The cosmogonies themselves assisted in banishing divine agents from the world , not because they were evolutionary rather than creative - the idea of divine creation was never prominent in Greek religion - but because they made ...
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... natural philosophers left no part for Zeus to play in the produc- tion of rain , thunder or lightning , nor for Poseidon in the terror of earthquakes.1 In so far as the new spirit was a reaction from an interest in external nature to a ...
... natural philosophers left no part for Zeus to play in the produc- tion of rain , thunder or lightning , nor for Poseidon in the terror of earthquakes.1 In so far as the new spirit was a reaction from an interest in external nature to a ...
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agree Alcibiades Alcidamas Antiphon Antisthenes Apol appears areté argued argument Aristippus Aristophanes Aristotle Aristotle's atheism Athenian Athens believed called Callicles character claim Clouds connexion contemporary Cratylus Critias criticism death definition democracy Democritus dialogue Diogenes discussion divine doctrine Eleatic ethical Euripides evidence existence fact fifth century Gesch give gods Gomperz Gorgias Greek Grote Halbb Hippias historical human idea interest Isocrates justice knowledge logos Lycophron matter means mentioned mind moral nature Nestle nomoi nomos opinion orator origin Parmenides passage Phaedo philosophers physis Plato pleasure poets political practical probably Prodicus Prot Protagoras Protagoras's psyche pupil question quoted reference rhetoric says sense Sextus slave Socrates Socrates's Sophists Sophs soul speaks speech teaching Theaet Theaetetus theory things thought Thrasymachus Thucydides true truth Untersteiner unwritten laws virtue VMzuL words writing Xenophon Zeus καὶ τὸ τῶν