A History of Greek Philosophy: The fifth-century enlightenmentUniversity Press, 1962 - Philosophy, Ancient |
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... positive evidence . This outlook in its turn is opposed by the attempt to restore , with philosophical justification , a belief in absolute standards and permanent and unvarying truths existing above , and unaffected by , sensible ...
... positive evidence . This outlook in its turn is opposed by the attempt to restore , with philosophical justification , a belief in absolute standards and permanent and unvarying truths existing above , and unaffected by , sensible ...
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... positive laws the legislator follows an absolutely universally valid norm which is exemplary for his own as well as for every other will . " The Sophists had held up nature as the antithesis of law , wrongly , said Plato , for nature ...
... positive laws the legislator follows an absolutely universally valid norm which is exemplary for his own as well as for every other will . " The Sophists had held up nature as the antithesis of law , wrongly , said Plato , for nature ...
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... positive laws of men because their origin was from the gods . This conception is best known from the splendid lines of Sophocles in the Antigone ( 450ff . ) , where Antigone defends the burial of her dead brother contrary to the edict ...
... positive laws of men because their origin was from the gods . This conception is best known from the splendid lines of Sophocles in the Antigone ( 450ff . ) , where Antigone defends the burial of her dead brother contrary to the edict ...
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... positive evidence of a serious interest in cosmology or physical questions generally , though this has sometimes been claimed for Protagoras on the basis of a quotation in Eustathius from the comic poet Eupolis ( DK A 11 ) , who ...
... positive evidence of a serious interest in cosmology or physical questions generally , though this has sometimes been claimed for Protagoras on the basis of a quotation in Eustathius from the comic poet Eupolis ( DK A 11 ) , who ...
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... positive law . This too , in spite of the metaphorical language about the gods ' writing ' such laws , belongs rather to the ' unwritten ordinances ' which were indeed believed to come from heaven . It recalls the conversation between ...
... positive law . This too , in spite of the metaphorical language about the gods ' writing ' such laws , belongs rather to the ' unwritten ordinances ' which were indeed believed to come from heaven . It recalls the conversation between ...
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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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