A History of Western Philosophy
is a portion of everything except mind, and some things contain mind also. Mind has power over all things that have life; it is ...
CHAPTER IX The Atomists THE founders of atomism were two, Leucippus and Democritus. It is difficult to disentangle them, because ...
and the Sophists, although part of his philosophy was intended as an answer to Protagoras, his fellow-townsman and the most emin ...
balls. This was certainly the view of Epicurus, who in most respects based his theories on those of Democritus, while trying, ra ...
plain the world without introducing the notion of purpose or final cause. The "final cause" of an occurrence is an event in the ...
It must not be supposed that their reasons for their theories were wholly empirical. The atomic theory was revived in modern tim ...
duce passing-away. Moreover, they act and suffer action whenever they chance to be in contact (for there they are not one), and ...
one would define void as place bereft of body." This view is set forth with the utmost explicitness by Newton, who asserts the e ...
but a system of relations, as Leibniz held. It is not by any means clear whether this view is compatible with the existence of t ...
destroyed by collision with a larger world. This cosmology may be summarized in Shelley's words: Worlds on worlds are rolling ev ...
beginning. Their attitude, in the main, was genuinely scientific whenever it did not merely embody the prejudices of their age. ...
in practical life. As there was no public provision for such education, the Sophists taught only those who had private means, or ...
prosecutor and accused, appeared in person, not through professional lawyers. Naturally, success or failure depended largely on ...
set to work to puzzle a simple-minded person named Clesippus. Dionysodorus begins: You say that you have a dog? Yes, a villain o ...
but this seems to be untrue, in spite of the fact that he wrote a book On the Gods, which began: "With regard to the gods, I can ...
modern professors, who see no reason to refuse a salary, have so frequently repeated Plato's strictures. There was, however, ano ...
ably largely hostility to the Sophists that gave this character to his dialogues. One of the defects of all philosophers since P ...
quered by the Persians, was undertaken, with great success, by Athens. Athens became the leading sea power, and acquired a consi ...
Part II. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle CHAPTER XI Socrates SOCRATES is a very difficult subject for the historian. There are ma ...
far from being subversive, were rather dull and commonplace. This defence goes too far, since it leaves the hostility to Socrate ...
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