Socrates and Christ: A Study in the Philosophy of ReligionThis book contains a comparison between the lives of the philosopher Socrates and Jesus Christ. The author draws comparisons between the two thinkers and attempts to harmonize their views. |
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... deities . Originally it was not an ethical , but an imaginative faith that Phidias and the rest served . " The national games , the religious pageants , the theatrical shows , and the gymnastic exercises of the Greeks were sculpturesque ...
... deities . Originally it was not an ethical , but an imaginative faith that Phidias and the rest served . " The national games , the religious pageants , the theatrical shows , and the gymnastic exercises of the Greeks were sculpturesque ...
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... deity . The individual is free , yet he finds himself overcome by the stress of outer necessity . Some power , imper- sonal and changeless , rules men and gods alike . The semi - monotheism of Eschylus and Sophocles points to a supreme ...
... deity . The individual is free , yet he finds himself overcome by the stress of outer necessity . Some power , imper- sonal and changeless , rules men and gods alike . The semi - monotheism of Eschylus and Sophocles points to a supreme ...
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... deity is thus separated from the world . Men and things may be 1 Philo - Judæus , James Drummond , vol , i . p . 51 . 2 Ibid . , vol , i . p . 54 . progressing towards such a state , but the very fact Mission and Philosophy of Socrates .
... deity is thus separated from the world . Men and things may be 1 Philo - Judæus , James Drummond , vol , i . p . 51 . 2 Ibid . , vol , i . p . 54 . progressing towards such a state , but the very fact Mission and Philosophy of Socrates .
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... deity , can only make the best of the incu- rably bad . Circumstances contain a surd , as it were , and the solution implied in a perfect life is thus put beyond the region of realisation . Aristotle , in short , raises Socrates ...
... deity , can only make the best of the incu- rably bad . Circumstances contain a surd , as it were , and the solution implied in a perfect life is thus put beyond the region of realisation . Aristotle , in short , raises Socrates ...
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... deity who has by nature the completeness which thought , even with the utmost exertion , cannot now comprehend . Consciously or unconsciously , an ac- knowledgment of imperfection is present , confirming , in relation to the material ...
... deity who has by nature the completeness which thought , even with the utmost exertion , cannot now comprehend . Consciously or unconsciously , an ac- knowledgment of imperfection is present , confirming , in relation to the material ...
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