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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... enquiry , Occam set philosophy on the road back to secularism . From the sixteenth century onwards , the Church no longer dominates in this field . At the same time , this schism enables men to keep their rational and their religious ...
... enquiry , Occam set philosophy on the road back to secularism . From the sixteenth century onwards , the Church no longer dominates in this field . At the same time , this schism enables men to keep their rational and their religious ...
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... enquiry , a frame - work , as it were , to gather the findings of science into some kind of order . Insofar as idealism has tried to do no more than that , it is quite within its proper bounds . At the same time we may point out that in ...
... enquiry , a frame - work , as it were , to gather the findings of science into some kind of order . Insofar as idealism has tried to do no more than that , it is quite within its proper bounds . At the same time we may point out that in ...
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... enquiry that is the good . This is an ethical principle that stems from Pythagoras . The pursuit of a truth which is ac- knowledged as independent of the seeker , this has been , from the time of Thales , the ethical driving - force ...
... enquiry that is the good . This is an ethical principle that stems from Pythagoras . The pursuit of a truth which is ac- knowledged as independent of the seeker , this has been , from the time of Thales , the ethical driving - force ...
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