The Story of Western PhilosophyThis book was born of the paperback boom, and it is meant as an aid in the interpretation of the history of Western philosophy. It is designed especially for use in a course in the history of philosophy, but I hope that it may also prove useful for other purposes, such as an historical introduction to philosophy or a comprehensive review of the history of philosophy or just as a help to the general reader trying to make some sense out of the history of Western philosophy.-Preface. |
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Page 66
... immortality fit into this picture of the soul and its perfection ? We have seen that the soul as a cosmic principle , as the ultimate agency or principle of determination , of course , is immortal , and that Plato's arguments for ...
... immortality fit into this picture of the soul and its perfection ? We have seen that the soul as a cosmic principle , as the ultimate agency or principle of determination , of course , is immortal , and that Plato's arguments for ...
Page 101
... immortality of this principle of form , and that only insofar as it actually knows and contemplates the forms , so only the active reason can be immortal . The achieve- ment of this immortality through rational attachment to the ...
... immortality of this principle of form , and that only insofar as it actually knows and contemplates the forms , so only the active reason can be immortal . The achieve- ment of this immortality through rational attachment to the ...
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... Immortality is granted in Spinoza's ethics in two senses , al- though neither of them is a personal immortality of the indi- vidual human . First , every person , and indeed everything what- ever , is immortal as a mode of the eternal ...
... Immortality is granted in Spinoza's ethics in two senses , al- though neither of them is a personal immortality of the indi- vidual human . First , every person , and indeed everything what- ever , is immortal as a mode of the eternal ...
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The Philosophical Story Previewed | 3 |
The Cosmological Philosophers | 13 |
The Anthropological Philosophers | 34 |
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