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Such being the state of the materials , a course of study in ancient philosophy is bound to concentrate attention on the works that exist in readable form — the works of Plato and Aristotle . But there are certain dangers in studying ...
Such being the state of the materials , a course of study in ancient philosophy is bound to concentrate attention on the works that exist in readable form — the works of Plato and Aristotle . But there are certain dangers in studying ...
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In this field all the most important and original work was done in the three centuries from 600 to 300 B.C. After Aristotle's death in 322 physics fell into the background ; philosophers became preoccupied with the quest of a moral or ...
In this field all the most important and original work was done in the three centuries from 600 to 300 B.C. After Aristotle's death in 322 physics fell into the background ; philosophers became preoccupied with the quest of a moral or ...
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His system , with slight modifications , was adopted , after Aristotle's death , by Epicurus , and reproduced by Lucretius for the Roman public in the first century B.C. For Democritus the original state of things was a chaos of minute ...
His system , with slight modifications , was adopted , after Aristotle's death , by Epicurus , and reproduced by Lucretius for the Roman public in the first century B.C. For Democritus the original state of things was a chaos of minute ...
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Contents
The Harmony of the Spheres 1930 | 14 |
The Unwritten Philosophy 1935 | 28 |
Platos Commonwealth 1935 | 47 |
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| Title | The Unwritten Philosophy and Other Essays |
| Author | Francis Macdonald Cornford |
| Editor | William Keith Chambers Guthrie |
| Contributor | William Keith Chambers Guthrie |
| Publisher | University Press, 1950 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 28 Jun 2006 |
| Length | 138 pages |
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