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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... doctrine , however , it succeeded in gaining wider adherence than the doctrines of Plato and Aristotle . It may be that Plato's emphasis on knowledge as the supreme good did not easily commend itself to men who stood in the midst of a ...
... doctrine , however , it succeeded in gaining wider adherence than the doctrines of Plato and Aristotle . It may be that Plato's emphasis on knowledge as the supreme good did not easily commend itself to men who stood in the midst of a ...
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... doctrine of predestination was later adopted by the more inflexible brands of reformed theology . On the other hand , his view that evil was not a material principle , as the Manichaeans had held , but the outcome of a bad will , was a ...
... doctrine of predestination was later adopted by the more inflexible brands of reformed theology . On the other hand , his view that evil was not a material principle , as the Manichaeans had held , but the outcome of a bad will , was a ...
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... doctrine of the Roman Church , and is taught as such in all its colleges and schools . No other philosophy today enjoys so prominent a status and such powerful backing , except the Dialectical Materialism which is the official doctrine ...
... doctrine of the Roman Church , and is taught as such in all its colleges and schools . No other philosophy today enjoys so prominent a status and such powerful backing , except the Dialectical Materialism which is the official doctrine ...
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