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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... person . His value is absolute because he is unique . If this doctrine be true universally , its significance in special cases is supreme . Those who have given shape to the ideals of entire nations and ages achieve a fuller immortality ...
... person . His value is absolute because he is unique . If this doctrine be true universally , its significance in special cases is supreme . Those who have given shape to the ideals of entire nations and ages achieve a fuller immortality ...
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... persons may be indis- pensable links in the chain of causation by which even the general causes produce their effects . . . . Philosophy and religion are abundantly amenable to general causes ; yet few will doubt , that had there been ...
... persons may be indis- pensable links in the chain of causation by which even the general causes produce their effects . . . . Philosophy and religion are abundantly amenable to general causes ; yet few will doubt , that had there been ...
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... person " who came to deliver man from an exceptional difficulty , and , as a consequence , the interaction between his person- ality and the circumstances of the time was unusually intense . To this attention must now be given . 31 ...
... person " who came to deliver man from an exceptional difficulty , and , as a consequence , the interaction between his person- ality and the circumstances of the time was unusually intense . To this attention must now be given . 31 ...
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... person than because he discovered an abstract principle . No doubt there was such a principle present in his life , yet it appealed to Xenophon , Plato , and the others , not as an abstraction , but as the pervading secret of the moral ...
... person than because he discovered an abstract principle . No doubt there was such a principle present in his life , yet it appealed to Xenophon , Plato , and the others , not as an abstraction , but as the pervading secret of the moral ...
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... person , " and yet is " willing to offer such advice as may occur to him without premeditation , " finds him- self forced to declare after a little discussion : " I no longer put confidence in the answers which I give ; for all that I ...
... person , " and yet is " willing to offer such advice as may occur to him without premeditation , " finds him- self forced to declare after a little discussion : " I no longer put confidence in the answers which I give ; for all that I ...
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