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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... things moral amounted to genius . The strange division between religion , as delineated say in Homer , and the deeper tendencies of life , as expressed by the dramatists , by Xenophanes , and by Socrates , precipitated a crisis dis ...
... things moral amounted to genius . The strange division between religion , as delineated say in Homer , and the deeper tendencies of life , as expressed by the dramatists , by Xenophanes , and by Socrates , precipitated a crisis dis ...
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... things seen and temporal . Eminently at home in their lovely sur- roundings , they found the attraction of visible nature irresistible . Accordingly , the early thinkers concern themselves to discover the origins and properties of ...
... things seen and temporal . Eminently at home in their lovely sur- roundings , they found the attraction of visible nature irresistible . Accordingly , the early thinkers concern themselves to discover the origins and properties of ...
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... 1 Pre - Socratic Philosophy , Zeller , vol . i . pp . 145 , 146 . 2 Ibid . , pp . 197 , 198 . 3 Thales was said to have been of Phoenician descent . vestigate the origin of material things . For Thales " Antecedents of Socrates . 21.
... 1 Pre - Socratic Philosophy , Zeller , vol . i . pp . 145 , 146 . 2 Ibid . , pp . 197 , 198 . 3 Thales was said to have been of Phoenician descent . vestigate the origin of material things . For Thales " Antecedents of Socrates . 21.
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... things . For Thales " water is the one original substance ; " Pythagoras systematises the universe by means of number ; Xeno- phanes , in a tone of polemic , and Parmenides , with some regard for detail , formulate a doctrine not ...
... things . For Thales " water is the one original substance ; " Pythagoras systematises the universe by means of number ; Xeno- phanes , in a tone of polemic , and Parmenides , with some regard for detail , formulate a doctrine not ...
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... things were in chaos , Reason came and arranged them . " Spirit is thus at last distinguished from matter , and the dualism , of which all later philosophy is the history , receives half - conscious recognition . Anaxagoras is the true ...
... things were in chaos , Reason came and arranged them . " Spirit is thus at last distinguished from matter , and the dualism , of which all later philosophy is the history , receives half - conscious recognition . Anaxagoras is the true ...
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