A Critical History of Greek Philosophy
such as a straight line, we may consider it, in the first place, as one. In that case it is a continuous indivisible unit. Next ...
other, which is the reality. Of course the Eleatics did not speak of appearance and reality in these terms. But this is what the ...
that a system of philosophy breaks down and fails, then we may nearly always be sure its defect will reveal itself as an unrecon ...
and not only Kepler’s laws, but many other astronomical laws and facts. Thus the explanation of the many isolated facts consists ...
being derived from the other. Then what relation does X bear to Y? We cannot fully comprehend X without know- ing its relation t ...
try to make you believe that they get rabbits, guinea-pigs, pieces of string, paper, and ribbon, out of an entirely empty top-ha ...
as that of the Hindus or that of Spinoza, which begins with the conception of the Absolute as a pure one, totally exclu- sive of ...
Chapter 18 CHAPTER V HERACLEITUS Heracleitus was born about 535 B.C., and is believed to have lived to the age of sixty. This pl ...
“Obscure.” Socrates said of his work that what he under- stood of it was excellent, what not, he believed was equally so, but th ...
A man is born. That is his origination. He dies. That is his decease. Between his birth and his death there are intermediate cha ...
unity. That it is by virtue of this principle that every- thing in the universe exists, is the teaching of Heracleitus. All thin ...
In his religious opinions Heracleitus was sceptical. But he does not, like Xenophanes, direct his attacks against the central id ...
Chapter 19 CHAPTER VI EMPEDOCLES Empedocles was a man of Agrigentum in Sicily. The dates of his birth and death are placed about ...
that things arise and pass away, there is only one way of explaining this. We must suppose that objects, as wholes begin and cea ...
any portion of the sphere there must be an equal quan- tity of earth, air, fire and water. The elements are thus in union, and t ...
Chapter 20 CHAPTER VII THE ATOMISTS The founder of the Atomist philosophy was Leucippus. Practically nothing is known of his lif ...
ticles. And we do hear vaguely of physical particles in the doctrine of Empedocles, but no definition is given of their nature, ...
was a modification introduced by them, or whether it was part of the original doctrine of Democritus and Leucippus. The atoms ar ...
definite solution of the problem of the origin of motion and the character of the moving force. They apparently saw no necessity ...
Chapter 21 CHAPTER VIII ANAXAGORAS Anaxagoras was born at Clazomenae in Asia Minor about 500 B.C. He was a man of noble family, ...
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