The History of Materialism and Criticism of Its Present Importance, Volume 1K. Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1892 - Materialism |
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... Epikurean Atomism , in cases where we are not told the contrary , are due to Demokritos . Epikuros made the atoms infinite in number , but not infi- nitely various in form . More important is his innovation in reference to the origin of ...
... Epikurean Atomism , in cases where we are not told the contrary , are due to Demokritos . Epikuros made the atoms infinite in number , but not infi- nitely various in form . More important is his innovation in reference to the origin of ...
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... Epikurean system would necessarily leave us involved . For if the gods exist indeed , but do nothing , that would be reason enough for the credulous frivolity of the masses to believe in them but not to worship them , while Epi- kuros ...
... Epikurean system would necessarily leave us involved . For if the gods exist indeed , but do nothing , that would be reason enough for the credulous frivolity of the masses to believe in them but not to worship them , while Epi- kuros ...
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... Epikurean system , were in the service of ethic , and this subordinate position could not but react upon his explanation of nature . For as the whole object of the explanation of nature is to free us from fear and anxiety , the stimulus ...
... Epikurean system , were in the service of ethic , and this subordinate position could not but react upon his explanation of nature . For as the whole object of the explanation of nature is to free us from fear and anxiety , the stimulus ...
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... Epikurean Polyaenos is scarcely to he mentioned . Even Aristarchos of Samos , the forerunner of Copernicus , clung to Pythagorean traditions . The great Hipparchos , the discoverer of the precession of the equi- noxes , believed in the ...
... Epikurean Polyaenos is scarcely to he mentioned . Even Aristarchos of Samos , the forerunner of Copernicus , clung to Pythagorean traditions . The great Hipparchos , the discoverer of the precession of the equi- noxes , believed in the ...
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... Epikurean : only in the theory of knowledge he held the immediate certainty of sense - perceptions ; but he supplemented it by assuming immediate truths of the reason , which are certain previous to all experience.60 We see easily ...
... Epikurean : only in the theory of knowledge he held the immediate certainty of sense - perceptions ; but he supplemented it by assuming immediate truths of the reason , which are certain previous to all experience.60 We see easily ...
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Page 131 - Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas, Atque metus omnes, et inexorabile fatum Subjecit pedibus, strepitumque Acherontis avari.
Page 186 - Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment; who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain; who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters; who maketh the clouds his chariot; who walketh upon the wings of the wind; who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire. Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.
Page 284 - Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, religion; not allowed, superstition.
Page 186 - They go up by the mountains; They go down by the valleys Unto the place which thou hast founded for them. Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; That they turn not again to cover the earth.
Page 186 - The trees of the LORD are full of sap; the cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted; 17 Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house.
Page 147 - ... .Now no more shall thy house admit thee with glad welcome, nor a most virtuous wife and sweet children run to be the first to snatch kisses and touch thy heart with a silent joy. No more mayst thou be prosperous in thy doings, a safeguard to thine own. One disastrous day has taken from thee luckless man in luckless wise all the many prizes of life'.
Page 249 - ... connaître que toutes les raisons dont je me servais n'ont point de force; et quoique je pensasse qu'elles fussent appuyées sur des démonstrations très certaines et très évidentes, je ne voudrais toutefois pour rien du monde les soutenir contre l'autorité de l'Église.