A History of Western Philosophy
of causes was from eternity spinning the thread of thy being." There goes with this, in spite of his position in the Roman State ...
called God or Reason. As a whole, this Being is free. God decided, from the first, that He would act according to fixed general ...
inevitable result of previous causes (as the Stoics should have held) is likely to have a somewhat paralysing effect on moral ef ...
but this is a mistake; what is good is a will directed towards securing these false goods for other people. This doctrine involv ...
The doctrine of natural right, as it appears in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, is a revival of a Stoic do ...
and in accustoming men to the idea of a single civilization associated with a single government. Fourth: the transmission of Hel ...
hands of small farmers growing grain by their own labour and that of their families, came to be a matter of huge estates belongi ...
ing to Rostovtseff, republican Rome had "introduced nothing new, except pauperization, bankruptcy, and a stoppage of all indepen ...
settles down to a marriage of reason. This mood, though contented, is not creative. The great poets of the Augustan age had been ...
fruit. The barbarians decided that it was more profitable to fight for themselves than for a Roman master. Nevertheless it serve ...
I come now to the four ways in which the Roman Empire affected the history of culture. I. The direct effect of Rome on Greek tho ...
of the Cynics, than were those of earlier Stoics. Probably the admiration of Plato felt by cultivated Romans influenced him in a ...
became aware of themselves as comparatively barbarous and uncouth. The Greeks were immeasurably their superiors in many ways: in ...
The cultural influence of Greece on the Western Empire diminished rapidly from the third century A.D. onwards, chiefly because c ...
her had a daughter, whom the oracle recommended to Rutilianus. "Rutilianus, who was at the time sixty years old, at once complie ...
had been part of the Persian creed since Zoroaster. Rostovtseff * reproduces a bas-relief representing his worship, which was fo ...
In certain respects, political and ethical, Alexander and the Romans were the causes of a better philosophy than any that was pr ...
victories were easy, and the fighting was slight. Except possibly during the first few years, they were not fanatical; Christian ...
CHAPTER XXX Plotinus PLOTINUS ( A.D. 204-270), the founder of Neoplatonism, is the last of the great philosophers of antiquity. ...
ism," he says, "is part of the vital structure of Christian theology, with which no other philosophy, I venture to say, can work ...
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