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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... questions of faith based on a species of special pleading . Ingenious parallels between Greek and barbarian , striking coincidences in the lives of great teachers , learned disquisitions on Christianity before Christ , and the like ...
... questions of faith based on a species of special pleading . Ingenious parallels between Greek and barbarian , striking coincidences in the lives of great teachers , learned disquisitions on Christianity before Christ , and the like ...
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... question the appropriateness of the parallel . Nor , again , is it possible to complain when Professor Mayor1 and Mr Benn , following Schleiermacher , —who speaks of " the too prosaic Xenophon , and the idealising Plato , " write that ...
... question the appropriateness of the parallel . Nor , again , is it possible to complain when Professor Mayor1 and Mr Benn , following Schleiermacher , —who speaks of " the too prosaic Xenophon , and the idealising Plato , " write that ...
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... question . 1 Vol . I. , Introduction , p . vi . ( The italics are mine . ) 2 The Rise and Progress of Christianity , R. W. Mackay , pp . 19 , 20 . ( The italics are mine . ) 3 Cf. Bruno Bauer's ' Christus und die Cæsaren , ' see below ...
... question . 1 Vol . I. , Introduction , p . vi . ( The italics are mine . ) 2 The Rise and Progress of Christianity , R. W. Mackay , pp . 19 , 20 . ( The italics are mine . ) 3 Cf. Bruno Bauer's ' Christus und die Cæsaren , ' see below ...
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... question that one so disposed could easily institute a satisfactory comparison between the two " apologies . " ' Socrates , this time we will let you go , but on one condition , that you cease from carry- ing on this search , and from ...
... question that one so disposed could easily institute a satisfactory comparison between the two " apologies . " ' Socrates , this time we will let you go , but on one condition , that you cease from carry- ing on this search , and from ...
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... question , though full of interest , is beyond our present inquiry . Whatever be the explanation , certain it is that , to the fifth century B.C. , Greek philosophy , from Agrigentum in the West to Colophon in the East , confined itself ...
... question , though full of interest , is beyond our present inquiry . Whatever be the explanation , certain it is that , to the fifth century B.C. , Greek philosophy , from Agrigentum in the West to Colophon in the East , confined itself ...
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