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... amongst passive pleasures . That epicurean came to be a byword for luxurious living is due to the fact that Epicurus was much maligned by his stoic contemporaries and their successors , who de- spised what seemed to them the grossly ...
... amongst passive pleasures . That epicurean came to be a byword for luxurious living is due to the fact that Epicurus was much maligned by his stoic contemporaries and their successors , who de- spised what seemed to them the grossly ...
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... amongst the patrician families in Rome . Boethius , the Neoplatonist , was Theodoric's minister . The emperor Justin was however a man of narrower views . In 523 he outlawed the Arian heretics . Theodoric was embarrassed by this move ...
... amongst the patrician families in Rome . Boethius , the Neoplatonist , was Theodoric's minister . The emperor Justin was however a man of narrower views . In 523 he outlawed the Arian heretics . Theodoric was embarrassed by this move ...
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... amongst European nations was going henceforth to threaten the very survival of Western Civilization . This was the main driving force behind the setting - up of the League of Nations in 1919. One of the chief protagonists of this ...
... amongst European nations was going henceforth to threaten the very survival of Western Civilization . This was the main driving force behind the setting - up of the League of Nations in 1919. One of the chief protagonists of this ...
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amongst Anaxagoras Anaximander argument Aristotelian Aristotle Aristotle's Athens atoms became Boethius called causality century Christian Church conception course criticism Descartes developed dialectic dialogues doctrine Eleatic Empedocles Emperor Empire enquiry Epicurus ethical existence existentialist experience fact follow give goes Greece Greek Hegel Hegelian held Heraclitus hold Hume important influence interest Kant kind knowledge language later Leibniz linked lived logic Marx mathematics matter means measure metaphysical Miletus mind monads movement mysticism nature Neo-Platonic notion noumena object Occam once opposed outlook Parmenides Peirce philosophy Plato Plotinus political Pope position principle problem proposition Pythagoras Pythagorean question rational rationalist reason recognised reform religion religious remained renaissance Roman Rome rule scepticism scientific seems sense social Socrates soul sphere Spinoza stoic stoicism substance survived Theaetetus theology theory of ideas things thinkers thinking thought tradition true truth universal Vico whole word Zeno