A History of Greek Philosophy: The fifth-century enlightenmentUniversity Press, 1962 - Philosophy, Ancient |
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... origin and purpose of organized societies , and the biggest difficulty which it presented was that of setting limits to the subject . What an authority on the eighteenth century has said of the philosophes of that epoch is equally true ...
... origin and purpose of organized societies , and the biggest difficulty which it presented was that of setting limits to the subject . What an authority on the eighteenth century has said of the philosophes of that epoch is equally true ...
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... origin and substance of the stars , we are hardly likely to be helped by the speculations of Xenophanes or Anaxagoras . With the change that came over philosophy in the fifth century , we are plunged into a discussion of questions which ...
... origin and substance of the stars , we are hardly likely to be helped by the speculations of Xenophanes or Anaxagoras . With the change that came over philosophy in the fifth century , we are plunged into a discussion of questions which ...
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... origins of life and society which were a feature of Ionian thought from Anaximander onwards . Life , including human life , was the product of a kind of fermentation set up by the action of heat on damp or putrefying matter , and social ...
... origins of life and society which were a feature of Ionian thought from Anaximander onwards . Life , including human life , was the product of a kind of fermentation set up by the action of heat on damp or putrefying matter , and social ...
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... origin . In the idea that laws are a matter of human agreement , ' covenants made by the citizens ' as Hippias called them ( p . 138 below ) , instead of divinely sanctioned , we have the essence of the theory of the social compact or ...
... origin . In the idea that laws are a matter of human agreement , ' covenants made by the citizens ' as Hippias called them ( p . 138 below ) , instead of divinely sanctioned , we have the essence of the theory of the social compact or ...
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... origin , the oscillation of the word between the two ideas . Since , however , they are already separated for us , and no English word has the same cover- age , it will be best to retain the Greek . It will serve to remind us that ...
... origin , the oscillation of the word between the two ideas . Since , however , they are already separated for us , and no English word has the same cover- age , it will be best to retain the Greek . It will serve to remind us that ...
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