Foundations of Western Thought: Six Major Philosophers. [Selection of Readings]James Gordon Clapp |
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... Socrates means by cause . All this , so far , sounds like a grand disgression , that a man might be entitled to who is about to die . Socrates ' audience does not think so . They know that what Socrates is confessing is not a success ...
... Socrates means by cause . All this , so far , sounds like a grand disgression , that a man might be entitled to who is about to die . Socrates ' audience does not think so . They know that what Socrates is confessing is not a success ...
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... Socrates . Observe , my friends , said Alcibiades , that this ingenious trick of mine will have no effect on Socrates , for he can drink any quantity of wine and not be at all nearer being drunk . Socrates drank the cup which the ...
... Socrates . Observe , my friends , said Alcibiades , that this ingenious trick of mine will have no effect on Socrates , for he can drink any quantity of wine and not be at all nearer being drunk . Socrates drank the cup which the ...
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... Socrates . You are sober , Alcibiades , said Socrates , or you would never have gone so far about to hide the purpose of your satyr's praises , for all this long story is only an ingenious circumlocution , of which the point comes in by ...
... Socrates . You are sober , Alcibiades , said Socrates , or you would never have gone so far about to hide the purpose of your satyr's praises , for all this long story is only an ingenious circumlocution , of which the point comes in by ...
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absolute action actually admit Agathon Alcibiades Anaxagoras animal appear argument Aristodemus Aristophanes Aristotle attributes body called categorical imperative cause Cebes certainly Cleanthes clearly colour conceive concept concerned consider contrary Crito David Hume definition Descartes desire distinct divine doubt earth Echecrates effect Eryximachus essence eternal exist experience fact faculty false feel formula happiness Hence honour human Hume Hylas ideas imagine impossible intellect intelligible judgment Kant kind knowledge mathematics matter mean merely metaphysics mind moral motion nature never not-being object opinion ousia pain particular perceive perception perfect Phaedo Phaedrus Philonous philosophers Plato pleasure possess possible potentially present principle priori pure reason qualities question rational regard replied scepticism sensation sense sensible things Simmias Socrates sort soul speak species Stranger substance suppose synthetic proposition term Theaetetus thought tion true truth understand universe virtue whole words