A History of Western Philosophy
Greater deaths win greater portions. (Those who die then become gods.) Night-walkers, magicians, priests of Bacchus and priestes ...
theory, for in strife opposites combine to produce a motion which is a harmony. There is a unity in the world, but it is a unity ...
"You cannot step twice into the same river; for fresh waters are ever flowing in upon you." * "The sun is new every day." His be ...
Tme doth transfix the flourish set on youth, And delves the parallels in beauty's brow, Feeds on the rarities of nature's truth, ...
ing phenomena. Chemistry seemed to satisfy this desire. It was found that fire, which appears to destroy, only transmutes: eleme ...
CHAPTER V Parmenides THE Greeks were not addicted to moderation, either in their theories or in their practice. Heraclitus maint ...
speaks of it as a sphere. But it cannot be divided, because the whole of it is present everywhere. Parmenides divides his teachi ...
Let us take an imaginary person, say Hamlet. Consider the statement "Hamlet was Prince of Denmark." In some sense this is true, ...
people who use the same word have just the same thought in their minds. George Washington himself could use his name and the wor ...
this argument. It may be said, in a sense, that we have no knowledge of the past. When you recollect, the recollection occurs no ...
CHAPTER VI Empedocles THE mixture of philosopher, prophet, man of science, and charlatan, which we found already in Pythagoras, ...
influenced by him, praised him highly as a poet, but on this subject opinions were divided. Since only fragments of his writings ...
He was the founder of the Italian school of medicine, and the medical school which sprang from him influenced both Plato and Ari ...
entered and Love was expelled, until, at the worst, Strife will be wholly within and Love wholly without the sphere. Then--thoug ...
must wander thrice ten thousand years from the abodes of the blessed, being born throughout the time in all manners of mortal fo ...
by chance and necessity rather than by purpose. In these respects his philosophy was more scientific than those of Parmenides, P ...
the Peloponnesian War that followed the fall and death of Pericles, and reflects in his plays the scepticism of the later period ...
Platonic Socrates gives an amusing satirical description of the ardent disciples hanging on the words of the eminent visitor. Pe ...
crats, as the opponents of tyranny, were able to recommend themselves to the democracy. Until the fall of Pericles, democratic p ...
came from Miletus, introduced him to Pericles. Plato, in the Phaedrus, says: Pericles "fell in, it seems with Anaxagoras, who wa ...
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