A History of Western Philosophy
diso, and of almost nothing else in literature. Now and again, his descriptions of the eternal world of glory To our high-wrough ...
The life of Plotinus is known, so far as it is known, through the biography written by his friend and disciple Porphyry, a Semit ...
Stoics and Epicureans, being still active, are controverted, the Stoics only for their materialism, the Epicureans for every par ...
standard dictionary translation is "mind," but this does not have the correct connotations, particularly when the word is used i ...
that other, know that it is none of these, but a nobler principle than anything we know as Being; fuller and greater; above reas ...
This brings us to Soul, the third and lowest member of the Trinity. Soul, though inferior to nous, is the author of all living t ...
all this, so great, sprung from that greatness. Not to answer thus could only be to have neither fathomed this world nor had any ...
life, it will remember less and less; friends, children, wife, will be gradually forgotten; ultimately, we shall know nothing of ...
chained to the body. "The body obscures the truth, but there* all stands out clear and separate" ( IV, 9, 5). This doctrine, lik ...
for only the thing with which all power ends fails to pass downwards something of itself. This is perhaps the best answer to the ...
each all, and infinite the glory. Each of them is great; the small is great; the sun, There, is all the stars; and every star, a ...
of Protagoras, Socrates, and Plato, as well as in the Stoics and Epicureans. But at first it was only doctrinal, not temperament ...
Introduction CATHOLIC philosophy, in the sense in which I shall use the term, is that which dominated European thought from Augu ...
and wealth by means of its creed. The lay rulers, who were in frequent conflict with it, were defeated because the great majorit ...
world is found in the New Testament, but was systematized in Saint Augustine City of God. The dualism of the spirit and the fles ...
matter what creed. In the long run, the appeal to reason was perhaps a mistake, but in the thirteenth century it seemed highly s ...
general level of well-being was sharply lowered. After a lull during the fourth century, the fifth brought the extinction of the ...
or modern philosophy. Catholic philosophy is essentially the philosophy of an institution, namely the Catholic Church; modern ph ...
The existence of a small section of mankind whom God specially loves. For Jews, this section was the Chosen People; for Christi ...
ter of 853 B.C. The Assyrians finally conquered the Northern kingdom in 722 B.C., and removed a great part of the population. Af ...
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