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... Socrates observed that the task of philosophy is to prepare one for death , religion made this its chief concern . Not merely did the early religious cults care for the dead body ; but they sought to circumvent the finality of the ...
... Socrates observed that the task of philosophy is to prepare one for death , religion made this its chief concern . Not merely did the early religious cults care for the dead body ; but they sought to circumvent the finality of the ...
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... Socrates , the Socrates Plato has set before us . His first concern was to divest the self of an unjustified sense of security in the knowl- edge it possessed , beginning with the verbal terms it used to express that knowledge . If , as ...
... Socrates , the Socrates Plato has set before us . His first concern was to divest the self of an unjustified sense of security in the knowl- edge it possessed , beginning with the verbal terms it used to express that knowledge . If , as ...
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... Socrates as about Xantippe . Had Socrates inspected his own behavior , he might have discovered that love of knowledge in itself does not automatically produce vir- tue : that there is a tendency in all people , including Socrates , to ...
... Socrates as about Xantippe . Had Socrates inspected his own behavior , he might have discovered that love of knowledge in itself does not automatically produce vir- tue : that there is a tendency in all people , including Socrates , to ...
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THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF | 92 |
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