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Everyone can see that , from the days of Zeno and Epicurus onwards , philosophy became essentially moral philosophy . Ethics , as we say , overshadowed and prejudiced logical speculations and the study of nature .
Everyone can see that , from the days of Zeno and Epicurus onwards , philosophy became essentially moral philosophy . Ethics , as we say , overshadowed and prejudiced logical speculations and the study of nature .
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Platonism can be regarded as essentially a demand for the reversal of current moral values , crystallised in this doctrine that mankind will never be happy until the lover of wisdom is king . It would be interesting to consider how far ...
Platonism can be regarded as essentially a demand for the reversal of current moral values , crystallised in this doctrine that mankind will never be happy until the lover of wisdom is king . It would be interesting to consider how far ...
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I a not indeed in possession of a revealed religion ; but he thought that absolute truth might be discoverable in the realm of morals as well as in the field of mathematical science . If so , it could be discovered by the exercise of ...
I a not indeed in possession of a revealed religion ; but he thought that absolute truth might be discoverable in the realm of morals as well as in the field of mathematical science . If so , it could be discovered by the exercise of ...
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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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