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Page 45
... death of winter to birth in spring , to maturity and decay , to death and rebirth - the cycle of becoming . If I may take these statements for granted without detailed proof , the point is that these abstract conceptions , which are for ...
... death of winter to birth in spring , to maturity and decay , to death and rebirth - the cycle of becoming . If I may take these statements for granted without detailed proof , the point is that these abstract conceptions , which are for ...
Page 53
... death . The choice between a political career and the philosophic life was not a choice that the real Socrates had ever had to face . Plato is thinking here of his own problem . The Gorgias is his final answer to the friends who had ...
... death . The choice between a political career and the philosophic life was not a choice that the real Socrates had ever had to face . Plato is thinking here of his own problem . The Gorgias is his final answer to the friends who had ...
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... death of Zeus was a part of the Cretan myth which the Greeks suppressed . It is noteworthy that the death of Marduk does not figure in the Creation myth ; but we possess tablets recording the ritual of his death and resurrection , which ...
... death of Zeus was a part of the Cretan myth which the Greeks suppressed . It is noteworthy that the death of Marduk does not figure in the Creation myth ; but we possess tablets recording the ritual of his death and resurrection , which ...
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The Harmony of the Spheres 1930 | 14 |
The Unwritten Philosophy 1935 | 28 |
Platos Commonwealth 1935 | 47 |
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