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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... reason , " , ” — the book aims at being constructive and not controversial . No pretence is made to trench upon disputed points of creed . I am indebted to many sources of information , and I have tried to indicate my main obligations ...
... reason , " , ” — the book aims at being constructive and not controversial . No pretence is made to trench upon disputed points of creed . I am indebted to many sources of information , and I have tried to indicate my main obligations ...
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... reason that the work which was given them to do has value in that it was different for each . It need hardly be said that one by no means intends to dispute the many literary and other references to the likeness between Socrates and ...
... reason that the work which was given them to do has value in that it was different for each . It need hardly be said that one by no means intends to dispute the many literary and other references to the likeness between Socrates and ...
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... reason that " Christianity closes a movement which arose upon the soil of pagan religion and philosophy , and the seed of which was sown by Socrates , " that " each of the principal forms assumed by Greek philosophy during this interval ...
... reason that " Christianity closes a movement which arose upon the soil of pagan religion and philosophy , and the seed of which was sown by Socrates , " that " each of the principal forms assumed by Greek philosophy during this interval ...
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... Reason ' as the key to modern philosophy , another rests satisfied when he has reduced it to its lowest terms . Such variations serve to hint that genius is paradoxical in nature . And so it is . The individual is never greater than his ...
... Reason ' as the key to modern philosophy , another rests satisfied when he has reduced it to its lowest terms . Such variations serve to hint that genius is paradoxical in nature . And so it is . The individual is never greater than his ...
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... Reason , which is one in itself , and has no admixture of natures , must be the power which reduces this chaos to order . " All things were in chaos , Reason came and arranged them . " Spirit is thus at last distinguished from matter ...
... Reason , which is one in itself , and has no admixture of natures , must be the power which reduces this chaos to order . " All things were in chaos , Reason came and arranged them . " Spirit is thus at last distinguished from matter ...
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