Foundations of Western Thought: Six Major Philosophers. [Selection of Readings]James Gordon Clapp |
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... concerned with what is necessary or probable . The objects of this knowledge are independent of human deliberation and desire . The second class of knowledge is concerned with human action , most notably in politics and ethics . This he ...
... concerned with what is necessary or probable . The objects of this knowledge are independent of human deliberation and desire . The second class of knowledge is concerned with human action , most notably in politics and ethics . This he ...
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... concerned with great honours , while this quality itself is concerned with small honours ; for it is possible to aspire to minor honours in the right way , or more than is right , or less . He who exceeds in these aspirations is called ...
... concerned with great honours , while this quality itself is concerned with small honours ; for it is possible to aspire to minor honours in the right way , or more than is right , or less . He who exceeds in these aspirations is called ...
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... concerned with doing is different from the rational quality concerned with making . Nor is one of them a part of the other , for doing is not a form of making , nor making a form of doing . Now architectural skill , for instance , is an ...
... concerned with doing is different from the rational quality concerned with making . Nor is one of them a part of the other , for doing is not a form of making , nor making a form of doing . Now architectural skill , for instance , is an ...
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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