Lectures on the History of Ancient Philosophy
Author : William Archer Butler
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Page : 428 pages
File Size : 17,7 MB
Release : 1857
Category : Philosophy, Ancient
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Author : William Archer Butler
Publisher :
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 17,7 MB
Release : 1857
Category : Philosophy, Ancient
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Author : David Sedley
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 11,26 MB
Release : 2008-01-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780520934368
The world is configured in ways that seem systematically hospitable to life forms, especially the human race. Is this the outcome of divine planning or simply of the laws of physics? Ancient Greeks and Romans famously disagreed on whether the cosmos was the product of design or accident. In this book, David Sedley examines this question and illuminates new historical perspectives on the pantheon of thinkers who laid the foundations of Western philosophy and science. Versions of what we call the "creationist" option were widely favored by the major thinkers of classical antiquity, including Plato, whose ideas on the subject prepared the ground for Aristotle's celebrated teleology. But Aristotle aligned himself with the anti-creationist lobby, whose most militant members—the atomists—sought to show how a world just like ours would form inevitably by sheer accident, given only the infinity of space and matter. This stimulating study explores seven major thinkers and philosophical movements enmeshed in the debate: Anaxagoras, Empedocles, Socrates, Plato, the atomists, Aristotle, and the Stoics.
Author : William Archer Butler
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Page : 454 pages
File Size : 32,89 MB
Release : 2016-06-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781332793655
Excerpt from Lectures on the History of Ancient Philosophy, Vol. 2 of 2 Lect. Very imperfect phrase) of the blessed Trinity we I know little more than a distinction Of O ices and such, - or something approaching to such, - a dis tinction of Offices in the Supreme Essence is not, perhaps, wholly beyond the antecedent conjecture, however beyond the demonstrative certainty, Of contemplative reason. And every such speculation, if it cannot much corroborate, cannot at all enfeeble. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Author : Jostein Gaarder
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 599 pages
File Size : 19,70 MB
Release : 2007-03-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1466804270
A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.
Author : William A. Butler
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Page : 516 pages
File Size : 15,88 MB
Release : 1856
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Author : Anthony Grafton
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 44,38 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780472106264
A distinctive history of the traditions of reading and life in the Renaissance library, as seen in the texts of Renaissance intellectuals
Author : Edward Grant
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 26,46 MB
Release : 2007-01-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0521869315
This book describes how natural philosophy and exact mathematical sciences joined together to make the Scientific Revolution possible.
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Page : 3310 pages
File Size : 41,63 MB
Release : 1997
Category : American literature
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Author : John Rawls
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 41,22 MB
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0674042565
Constantly revised and refined over three decades, Rawls's lectures on various historical figures reflect his developing and changing views on the history of liberalism and democracy. With its careful analyses of the doctrine of the social contract, utilitarianism, and socialism, this volume has a critical place in the traditions it expounds.
Author : B.H. Blackwell Ltd
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Page : 924 pages
File Size : 26,71 MB
Release : 1938
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
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