Wisdom of the West: A Historical Survey of Western Philosophy in Its Social and Political SettingPopular survey of Western thought from the ancient Greeks to modern Existentialists, with many illustrations and diagrams in full color. |
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... Empire , worked in the field of religion were accompanied by a similar development in philosophy . Broadly speaking , the mainstream of philosophy during the early Empire was stoic , while the more cheerful doctrines of Plato and ...
... Empire , worked in the field of religion were accompanied by a similar development in philosophy . Broadly speaking , the mainstream of philosophy during the early Empire was stoic , while the more cheerful doctrines of Plato and ...
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... Empire began to sink into an era of barbarism during which Europe suffered a general cultural decline . The Dark Ages , as they are called , are reckoned from A.D. 600 to 1000 approximately . Any attempt at carving up history like this ...
... Empire began to sink into an era of barbarism during which Europe suffered a general cultural decline . The Dark Ages , as they are called , are reckoned from A.D. 600 to 1000 approximately . Any attempt at carving up history like this ...
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... Empire held out with diminishing territories until the Ottoman Turks took the city in 1453. This remarkable explosion of Moslem vitality was helped by the general state of exhaustion of the empires overrun . Besides , in many places the ...
... Empire held out with diminishing territories until the Ottoman Turks took the city in 1453. This remarkable explosion of Moslem vitality was helped by the general state of exhaustion of the empires overrun . Besides , in many places the ...
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