A History of Western Philosophy

and Platonism lie side by side, and do not interpenetrate. In Saint Augustine, on the other hand, original thinking in pure phil ...

in time, whereas He stands eternally outside the stream of time. This leads Saint Augustine to a very admirable relativistic the ...

gradually increased in antiquity from the time of Protagoras and Socrates onwards. Its emotional aspect is obsession with sin, w ...

most important. I shall endeavour to avoid both errors by first giving some account of the detail and then passing on to the gen ...

men, but by the direct command of your gods." * It would be better to worship a virtuous man, such as Scipio, than these immoral ...

even in this world: Christian Emperors, if virtuous, have been happy even if not fortunate, and Constantine and Theodosius were ...

use in improving the universe as a whole which is analogous to antithesis in rhetoric. Origen errs in thinking that souls were g ...

marriage, as the desire for privacy shows, people are ashamed of sexual intercourse, because "this lawful act of nature is (from ...

manuscript, out of malice towards the Christians; this hypothesis is rejected. On the other hand, the Septuagint must have been ...

shall suffer eternal misery. "In our conflicts here on earth, either the pain is victor, and so death expels the sense of it, or ...

through the Middle Ages, during the gradual rise of the papal power, and throughout the conflict between Pope and Emperor, Saint ...

The terms on the left give the emotional content of the terms on the right, and it is this emotional content, familiar to those ...

where the final condemnation of the semi-Pelagian heresy took place at the Council of Orange in 529. Saint Augustine taught that ...

propagated by the parents, for sin is of the soul, not the body. He sees difficulties in this doctrine, but says that, since Scr ...

ward by the Huns, who attacked them from the East. At first they tried to conquer the Eastern Empire, but were defeated; then th ...

ing, and those who were most fearful of separating, the divinity and the humanity of Christ." Saint Cyril, the advocate of unity ...

government of Constantinople caused disaffection which helped the Mohammedans in their conquest of Syria. The tongue of Nestoriu ...

and this annoyed Theodoric. He had reason for fear, since Italy was Catholic, and was led by theological sympathy to side with t ...

is a god, but by nature there is only one God, but there may be many by participation." "The sum, origin, and cause of all that ...

Which for desire of good do move Back to the springs from whence they first did fall. No worldly thing Can a continuance have Un ...