A Manual of the History of Philosophy

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D. A. Talboys, 1832 - 494 pages

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Page 470 - ... equally to be found in comparing the productions of profane authors, and thus to arrive at a greater degree of certainty. If the reverse of this appears to have been the case in modern times — if the state of things with regard to this epistle, like that which belongs to German philosophy, appears " to discourage the very idea of the possibility of a satisfactory solution" — it is much to be suspected that there has been something wrong in the method of investigation.
Page 340 - A Letter to Mr Dodwell; wherein all the Arguments in his Epistolary Discourse against the Immortality of the Soul are particularly answered, and the Judgment of the Fathers concerning that Matter truly represented.
Page 115 - The theology of Plato compared with the principles of Oriental and Grecian philosophers. Lond., 1793. Ohse, J. Zu Platonis
Page 340 - A Letter to the learned Mr. Henry Dodwell, containing some Remarks on a pretended Demonstration of the Immateriality and Natural Immortality of the Soul, in Mr. Clarke's Answer to his late Epistolary Discourse, &c.
Page 62 - A Chronological Account of the Life of Pythagoras, and of other Famous Men his Contemporaries. With an Epistle to the Rd Dr. Bentley, about Porphyry's and Jamblichus's Lives of Pythagoras. By the Right Reverend Father in God, William, Ld BP of Coventry and Lichfald.
Page 337 - Things Divine and Supernatural Conceived by Analogy with Things Natural and Human (1733) he asserts that knowledge of God's essence and attributes can bo only " analogical
Page 58 - Groecia, until the conquests of the Persians and the troubles of southern Italy compelled it to take refuge in Athens ; from which, as a centre, intellectual civilization was disseminated, and, as it were, radiated over the whole of Greece.
Page 117 - Politics he denned to be the application, on a great scale, of the laws of Morality; (a society being composed of individuals and therefore under similar obligations) ; and its end to be liberty and concord. In giving a sketch of his Republic, as governed according to reason, Plato had...
Page i - A Manual of the History of Philosophy ; translated from the German of TENNEMANN. By the Rev. ARTHUR JOHNSON, MA, late Fellow of Wadham College.

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