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... ideal , and is identical with wisdom , as opposed to opinion , the subject - matter of which is the sensible . Aristotle some- times employs the term in a general sense , so as to include all science , but retains its narrower ...
... ideal , and is identical with wisdom , as opposed to opinion , the subject - matter of which is the sensible . Aristotle some- times employs the term in a general sense , so as to include all science , but retains its narrower ...
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... ideal of life for the individual . In the Middle Ages , when philosophy was subordinated to the dogmas of Christian theology , no systematic division was made . In modern times philosophy proper has been generally taken to include logic ...
... ideal of life for the individual . In the Middle Ages , when philosophy was subordinated to the dogmas of Christian theology , no systematic division was made . In modern times philosophy proper has been generally taken to include logic ...
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... ideal history , whenever it shall appear , we can scarcely expect will deprive it altogether of its point ; but it must we think also be admitted that though no mere reading of compilations will suffice for a serious philosophic culture ...
... ideal history , whenever it shall appear , we can scarcely expect will deprive it altogether of its point ; but it must we think also be admitted that though no mere reading of compilations will suffice for a serious philosophic culture ...
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... ideal of life . A little later than the Upanischads , which are for the most part poetic in character - and rather semi - conscious attempts to picture the mystery vaguely felt , than con- scious efforts to explain it come the six ...
... ideal of life . A little later than the Upanischads , which are for the most part poetic in character - and rather semi - conscious attempts to picture the mystery vaguely felt , than con- scious efforts to explain it come the six ...
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... ideal Good of Sokrates with the ontological One of the Eleatics . To him virtue , know- ledge , God , & c . , were only diverse names for this absolute fact . There was certainly little more than a formal carrying out of the Sokratic ...
... ideal Good of Sokrates with the ontological One of the Eleatics . To him virtue , know- ledge , God , & c . , were only diverse names for this absolute fact . There was certainly little more than a formal carrying out of the Sokratic ...
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Page 199 - When we run over libraries, persuaded of these principles, what havoc must we make? If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number'} No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.