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Science and Philosophy ' in the title of this lecture must be taken to mean what the Greeks called Physics or ' the inquiry into the nature of things ' . In this field all the most important and original work was done in the three ...
Science and Philosophy ' in the title of this lecture must be taken to mean what the Greeks called Physics or ' the inquiry into the nature of things ' . In this field all the most important and original work was done in the three ...
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By this ceremony was secured the due functioning of all things , sun , moon , stars , and seasons , in their appointed order . Here lies the ritual meaning of Creation : there is a new creation year by year , as a result of these ...
By this ceremony was secured the due functioning of all things , sun , moon , stars , and seasons , in their appointed order . Here lies the ritual meaning of Creation : there is a new creation year by year , as a result of these ...
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Mr Farrington opens his account of the Ionians by asserting , as ' a fact which anyone can confirm ' , that ' the kind of things that Anaximander was saying in his book On Nature were the same kind of things that an up - to - date ...
Mr Farrington opens his account of the Ionians by asserting , as ' a fact which anyone can confirm ' , that ' the kind of things that Anaximander was saying in his book On Nature were the same kind of things that an up - to - date ...
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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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