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... disciples committed their teaching to writing , and also that the earliest Pythagorean treatise , composed by Philolaus a contemporary of Socrates , is only known to us through fragments , the genuineness of which is disputed ; but ...
... disciples committed their teaching to writing , and also that the earliest Pythagorean treatise , composed by Philolaus a contemporary of Socrates , is only known to us through fragments , the genuineness of which is disputed ; but ...
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... disciples , as shown by the famous avròs ep , ipse dixit , which was to them an end of all controversy . The brotherhood , first established at Crotona , soon gained great influence with the wealthier class in that and the neighbouring ...
... disciples , as shown by the famous avròs ep , ipse dixit , which was to them an end of all controversy . The brotherhood , first established at Crotona , soon gained great influence with the wealthier class in that and the neighbouring ...
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... disciples must have been more or less true of all the early phi- losophers . The sage , no less than the poet , believed himself the organ of a special inspiration , which , in the case of the former , revealed to him the inner truth of ...
... disciples must have been more or less true of all the early phi- losophers . The sage , no less than the poet , believed himself the organ of a special inspiration , which , in the case of the former , revealed to him the inner truth of ...
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... disciples of Socrates , of whom we have now to speak . Socrates was born at Athens 470 B.C .; he was the son of Sophroniscus a sculptor , and Phaenarete a mid- wife . While sharing the general scepticism as to the possibility of ...
... disciples of Socrates , of whom we have now to speak . Socrates was born at Athens 470 B.C .; he was the son of Sophroniscus a sculptor , and Phaenarete a mid- wife . While sharing the general scepticism as to the possibility of ...
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... disciples : nor did he , like the Sophists , lecture to a paying audience on a set subject ; but obey- ing , as he believed , a divine call , he mixed with men of every class wherever they were to be found , cross- questioning them as ...
... disciples : nor did he , like the Sophists , lecture to a paying audience on a set subject ; but obey- ing , as he believed , a divine call , he mixed with men of every class wherever they were to be found , cross- questioning them as ...
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