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... perhaps we still treat them too much as they would like to be treated . There is a temptation to regard the history of philosophy as the record of a debate , carried on by a succession of speakers , each putting forward his own ...
... perhaps we still treat them too much as they would like to be treated . There is a temptation to regard the history of philosophy as the record of a debate , carried on by a succession of speakers , each putting forward his own ...
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... Perhaps the greater part of it was already done before he began to write . I suspect that , in an Oxford tutorial , one of the commonest questions is : " What exactly do you mean when you say so - and- so ? ' The question is as old as ...
... Perhaps the greater part of it was already done before he began to write . I suspect that , in an Oxford tutorial , one of the commonest questions is : " What exactly do you mean when you say so - and- so ? ' The question is as old as ...
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... Perhaps you do not believe ( as the ancients believed ) that human affairs move in cycles and that history repeats itself . But the men of my Victorian generation , to whom the war came in middle life , are struck by two features which ...
... Perhaps you do not believe ( as the ancients believed ) that human affairs move in cycles and that history repeats itself . But the men of my Victorian generation , to whom the war came in middle life , are struck by two features 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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