A history of philosophy, from Thales to the present time. Tr. by G.S. Morris, with additions by N. Porter, Volume 1

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Page 276 - Have we not one God, and one Christ, and one Spirit of grace that was shed upon us? And is there not one calling in Christ?
Page 85 - Socrates called philosophy down from the heavens to earth, and introduced it into the cities and houses of men, compelling men to inquire concerning life and morals and things good and evil...
Page 405 - Neo-Platonists and Christians, and that in consequence of the union among the former of philosophical with medical studies the works of Aristotle on natural science should be studied by them with especial zeal. Of the Arabian philosophers in the East, the most important were Alkendi...
Page 75 - When I know my relation to myself and to the outer world, I say that I possess the truth. And thus each may have his own truth, and yet truth is ever the same.
Page 334 - God, explaining evil as a mere negation or privation, and seeking to show from the finiteness of the things in the world, and from their differing degrees of perfection, that the evils in the world are necessary, and not in contradiction with the idea of creation ; he also defends in opposition to Manichceism, and Gnosticism in general, the Catholic doctrine of the essential harmony between the Old and New Testaments.
Page 32 - Oriental influencée, is quito conceivable, and some of these hypotheses have no slight degree of probability. § 11. The philosophy of the earlier Ionic physiologists is Hylozoism, ie, the doctrine of the immediate unity of matter and life, according to which matter is by nature endowed with life, and life is inseparably connected with matter.
Page 268 - That the law came by Moses, but grace and truth by Jesus (John i. 17) appears already as an assured conviction. The law is abrogated, religious life is no longer to be nourished and filled up with offerings and ceremonies ; and into the place thus left vacant enters, together with the practical activity required by love, a form of theoretical speculation arrived at through the development of the doctrine of faith.
Page 294 - Then we bring them to some place where there is ' water ; and they are regenerated by the same way ' of regeneration by which we were regenerated : ' for they are washed with water in the name of ' God, the Father and Lord of all things, and of our ' Saviour Jesus Christ, and of the Holy Spirit.
Page 103 - Plato's relation to the world is that of a superior spirit, whose good pleasure it is to dwell in it for a time. It is not so much his concern to become acquainted with it — for the world and its nature are things which he presupposes — as kindly to communicate to it that which he brings with him, and of which it stands in so great need. He penetrates into its depths, more that he may replenish them from the fullness of his own nature, than that he may fathom their mysteries.
Page 35 - That two triangles are congruent, when one side and two angles of the one are equal to the corresponding parts of the other (p. 92). The report (Plutarch., Conviv.

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