A History of Western Philosophy
swept over Hellas in the sixth century B.C.," together with the shifting of the scene from Ionia to the West. "The religion of c ...
by the Orphics to mean "sacrament," and was intended to purify the believer's soul and enable it to escape from the wheel of bir ...
lay to the east of the Greek coast towns, but remained on friendly terms with them until the fall of Nineveh ( 612 B.C.). This l ...
specially noted for one wise saying; his, according to tradition, was "water is best." According to Aristotle, he thought that w ...
and ageless, and "it encompasses all the worlds"--for he thought our world only one of many. The primal substance is transformed ...
the first man who made a map. He held that the earth is shaped like a cylinder. He is variously reported as saying the sun is as ...
were good questions, and their vigour inspired subsequent investigators. The next stage in Greek philosophy, which is associated ...
Amasis, King of Egypt. But when Cambyses, King of Persia, devoted his full energies to the conquest of Egypt, Polycrates realize ...
Not to step over a crossbar. Not to stir the fire with iron. Not to eat from a whole loaf. Not to pluck a garland. Not to sit o ...
All these precepts belong to primitive tabu-conceptions. Cornford (From Religion to Philosophy) says that, in his opinion, "The ...
after his death. Hippasos of Metapontion, who violated this rule, was shipwrecked as a result of divine wrath at his impiety. Bu ...
ethic, the opposition to modern values. In connection with a football match, modern-minded men think the players grander than th ...
tion to observation. If the world of sense does not fit mathematics, so much the worse for the world of sense. In various ways, ...
contra hyp. Therefore no fraction m/n will measure the hypotenuse. The above proof is substantially that in Euclid, Book X. * Th ...
material, is entirely dominated by Euclid. Theology, in its exact scholastic forms, takes its style from the same source. Person ...
CHAPTER IV Heraclitus TWO opposite attitudes towards the Greeks are common at the present day. One, which was practically univer ...
The Greeks contributed, it is true, something else which proved of more permanent value to abstract thought: they discovered mat ...
cerned in this chapter, there was another philosopher, of less importance, namely Xenophanes. His date is uncertain, and is main ...
that everything is in a state of flux, but this, as we shall see, is only one aspect of his metaphysics. Heraclitus, though an I ...
wrong in saying: 'Would that strife might perish from among gods and men!' He did not see that he was praying for the destructio ...
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