The Story of PhilosophyTrübner & Company, 1881 - 210 pages |
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... course of reasoning adopted by Thales and Anaximenes was a man whom we may deem the first who wrote a philosophical work that has survived him , viz . , Diogenes , who was born at Apol- lonia , in Crete , about the year 460 B.C. In ...
... course of reasoning adopted by Thales and Anaximenes was a man whom we may deem the first who wrote a philosophical work that has survived him , viz . , Diogenes , who was born at Apol- lonia , in Crete , about the year 460 B.C. In ...
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... course to be three thousand , others ten thousand years . Only a certain number of souls were supposed to be on earth , leaving the dying for the newly conceived bodies . Sometimes they would make progressive steps into higher human ...
... course to be three thousand , others ten thousand years . Only a certain number of souls were supposed to be on earth , leaving the dying for the newly conceived bodies . Sometimes they would make progressive steps into higher human ...
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... course , that to yourself and others like your- self you appear to have a separate existence , but all the time you are merely a minute Atom of the Great Mind , therefore you can lay claim but to an existence in part . Hegel assumed ...
... course , that to yourself and others like your- self you appear to have a separate existence , but all the time you are merely a minute Atom of the Great Mind , therefore you can lay claim but to an existence in part . Hegel assumed ...
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... Heraclitus stands " with one foot on the Ionian path , the other on the Italian . " But he seemed more to have come in their way , and with his on . new opinions to alter their course , -as a huge HERACLITUS AND DEMOCRITUS . 29.
... Heraclitus stands " with one foot on the Ionian path , the other on the Italian . " But he seemed more to have come in their way , and with his on . new opinions to alter their course , -as a huge HERACLITUS AND DEMOCRITUS . 29.
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Aston Leigh. new opinions to alter their course , -as a huge stone will , if ever so slightly , affect the course of a stream . Democritus , -the lively , matter - of - fact , shrewd writer , who , perhaps in contradistinction to ...
Aston Leigh. new opinions to alter their course , -as a huge stone will , if ever so slightly , affect the course of a stream . Democritus , -the lively , matter - of - fact , shrewd writer , who , perhaps in contradistinction to ...
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