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... positions established " and " positions overthrown . " A taste for metaphysics and a flare for the practice of ... position taken up by Berkeley represents a deliberate reaction from Hobbes's materialism . All things , runs the ...
... positions established " and " positions overthrown . " A taste for metaphysics and a flare for the practice of ... position taken up by Berkeley represents a deliberate reaction from Hobbes's materialism . All things , runs the ...
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... position were noted and need not be repeated here . In Kant's attempt to argue that morality is categorical , that it is not grounded in anything , but " stands on its own . feet , " we met a complete antithesis to the position repre ...
... position were noted and need not be repeated here . In Kant's attempt to argue that morality is categorical , that it is not grounded in anything , but " stands on its own . feet , " we met a complete antithesis to the position repre ...
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... position the decades since Luther or Napoleon loom large as Brocken specters . For the cultures of the West , it is evident that Athens , Florence , or Paris , is more important than Lo - Yang or Pataliputra . But is it permissible to ...
... position the decades since Luther or Napoleon loom large as Brocken specters . For the cultures of the West , it is evident that Athens , Florence , or Paris , is more important than Lo - Yang or Pataliputra . But is it permissible to ...
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