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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... entirely in consonance with the character of Hellenic naturalism . Slightly as poetry and science seem to be connected , they were even thus early intimately related . The free- dom from dogmatic restraint which enabled the Greeks to ...
... entirely in consonance with the character of Hellenic naturalism . Slightly as poetry and science seem to be connected , they were even thus early intimately related . The free- dom from dogmatic restraint which enabled the Greeks to ...
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... full . His concep- tion of Reason was elementary , and was formulated almost entirely by means of physical analogies . Mind 1 Cf. Phædo , 97 . is not a presupposition of the world , the two Antecedents of Socrates . 25.
... full . His concep- tion of Reason was elementary , and was formulated almost entirely by means of physical analogies . Mind 1 Cf. Phædo , 97 . is not a presupposition of the world , the two Antecedents of Socrates . 25.
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... entirely the influence of the Sophists , Euripides was , from the nature of the case , the exponent of defection from the ancient faith in its less pleasing aspects . His attitude in this matter exhibits most clearly the state of the ...
... entirely the influence of the Sophists , Euripides was , from the nature of the case , the exponent of defection from the ancient faith in its less pleasing aspects . His attitude in this matter exhibits most clearly the state of the ...
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... entirely Greek . " The Grecian state , " Emerson said , " is the era of the bodily nature , the perfection of the senses of the spiritual nature unfolded in strict unity with the body . " In Socrates this characteristic unconsciousness ...
... entirely Greek . " The Grecian state , " Emerson said , " is the era of the bodily nature , the perfection of the senses of the spiritual nature unfolded in strict unity with the body . " In Socrates this characteristic unconsciousness ...
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... entirely original , and its results unexampled . A far greater exemplar than any Sophist of the truth that every individual has his own " personal equation , ” his life yet served to prove that the unique charac- ter is peculiar in ...
... entirely original , and its results unexampled . A far greater exemplar than any Sophist of the truth that every individual has his own " personal equation , ” his life yet served to prove that the unique charac- ter is peculiar in ...
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