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... Phaedo by Plato, Trans. Benjamin Jowett is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit... ...letter as well as in the spirit, by writing verses as well as bycultivating philosophy. Tell this to Evenus; and say that I would have him follow me ... .... He too has been a captive, and the willing agent of his own captivity. But philosophy has spoken to him, and he has heard her voice; she has gently ... ...ideas; of man, has a history in time, which may be traced in Greek poetry or philosophy, and also in the Hebrew Scriptures. They convert feeling into ... ... spiritual, or from the outward to the inward. The progress of physiological science, without bringing us nearer to the great secret, has tended to re... ...together during many ages for the completion of our knowl edge? May not the science of physiology transform the world? Again, the majority of mankind... ...iminals, whom no avenging power of this world could reach. The voice of con science, too, was heard reminding the good man that he was not altogether...

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... Plato’s “Protagoras,”translated by Benjamin Jowett is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document File is furn... ...ersity. This Portable Document File is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit... ...That he will teach him prudence in affairs private and public; in short, the science or knowledge of human life.’ This, as Socrates admits, is a noble... ... though this is a fact which is not generally known); and the soul of their philosophy is brevity, which was also the style of primitive antiquity an... ...perfect piece of art. There are dramatic contrasts and interests, threads of philosophy broken and resumed, satirical reflec tions on mankind, veils ... ... of good and bad, true and false, but of the old art of rhetoric and the new science of interroga tion and argument; also of the irony of Socrates an... ... described as the true philosophers, and Laconic brevity as the true form of philosophy, evidently with an allusion to Protagoras’ long speeches. (3) ... ...ly true. And this, as possessing measure, must undeniably also be an art and science? They will agree, he said. The nature of that art or science will...

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...Martin Luther goes through the seven sacraments of the medieval Catholic Church with his interpretation of the Bible. He teaches his opinions on the different pratices taken place within the Catholic Church and what they should or do represent. The book is seemingly set ...

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...ederick C. Ahrens and Abdel Ross Wentz INTRODUCTION The primary importance of this treatise for the present-day reader of Luther lies in its courage... ... for the present-day reader of Luther lies in its courageous interpretation of the sacraments. But it is important also for its place in Luther’s pro... ... also for its place in Luther’s progressive assault upon the total position of the Romans. In An Open Letter to the Christian Nobility 1 Luther dem... ...out support of Scripture or reason that it seems to me he knows neither his philosophy nor his logic. For Aristotle speaks of subject and accidents ... ...ransubstantiation (a monstrous word and a monstrous idea), until the pseudo philosophy of Aristotle began to make its inroads into the church in the... ... How ridiculous! The laymen have never become familiar with their fine-spun philosophy of substance and accidents, and could not grasp it if it were ... ...21–1274) sought to relate all human knowledge to theology. All the arts and sciences were found to have points of contact in Scripture; and their sev...

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...E ON THE METHOD OF RIGHTLY CONDUCTING THE REASON, AND SEEKING TRUTH IN THE SCIENCES by René Descartes This Electronic Book Is a Publication of the Pen... ...TH IN THE SCIENCES by René Descartes This Electronic Book Is a Publication of the Pennsylvania State University’s Electronic Classics Series, Jim Mani... ...eries, Jim Manis Faculty Editor Cogito Ergo Sum DISCOURSE ON THE METHOD OF RIGHTLY CONDUCTING THE REASON, AND SEEKING TRUTH IN THE SCIENCES by Ren... ...E ON THE METHOD OF RIGHTLY CONDUCTING THE REASON, AND SEEKING TRUTH IN THE SCIENCES by René Descartes , is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...N, AND SEEKING TRUTH IN THE SCIENCES by René Descartes , is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...E ON THE METHOD OF RIGHTLY CONDUCTING THE REASON, AND SEEKING TRUTH IN THE SCIENCES by René Descartes, the Pennsylvania State University, Jim Manis,... ... in treatises on morals; that theology points out the path to heaven; that philosophy affords the means of dis coursing with an appearance of truth o... ... was need of some special help from heaven, and of being more than man. Of philosophy I will say nothing, except that when I saw that it had been cult... .... As to the other sciences, inasmuch as these borrow their principles from philosophy, I judged that no solid super structures could be reared on fou...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov. Alexy Fyodorovitch Karamazov was the third son of Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov, a landowner well known in our district in his own day, and still remembered among us owing to his gloomy and tragic death, which happened thirteen years ago, and which I shall describe in its p...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Father Ferapont. Alyosha was roused early, before daybreak. Father Zossima woke up feeling very weak, though he wanted to get out of bed and sit up in a chair. His mind was quite clear; his face looked very tired, yet bright and almost joyful. It wore an expression of gaiety, kindness and cordiality. ?Maybe I shall not live through the coming day,? he s...

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...eloped from a paper I wrote for Russian and Baltic country psychologists. They had come to Italy to the Institute in Ascoli Piceno, which is a member of the Sophia University of Rome, to participate in a seminar on Sophia- Art and Cosmo-Art. The same paper was expanded and presented at the Second Ulyssiads of the Sophia University of Rome, organized by the Institute in Te...

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... 1 Antonio Mercurio THE MYTH OF ULYSSES AND SECONDARY BEAUTY ... ... 2 Copyrighted material Published by The SOLARIS INSTITUTE of The SOPHIA UNIVERSITY OF ROME. (S.U.R.) Copyrignt 2009 by SOP... ... UNIVERSITY OF ROME. (S.U.R.) Copyrignt 2009 by SOPHIA UNIVERSITY OF ROME All rights reserved. Original title: Il Mito di Ulis... ... as final goals. What I would like to propose is how to fuse together the science of Existential Personalistic Anthropology with the arts of Sophia... ..., human beings are either rational animals (Aristotle) or digestive tubes (science); they are children of God (the religions) or sheep together wit... ...ice (apprentie sorcière), as society imposes. Philosophies, religions and science all impose their own vision of what the essence and existence of ...

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...Le Discours sur les sciences et les arts est un texte de Jean-Jacques Rousseau écrit dans le cadre du concours de l’Académe de Dijon de 1750. Lauréat du concours, Rousseau voit son essai fort commenté et lui doit sa célébrité, bien avant son opu...

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...nderground by Fyodor Dostoevsky, trans. Constance Garnett is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document File is furn... ...ersity. This Portable Document File is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit... ...at stone wall? Why, of course, the laws of nature, the deductions of natural science, mathematics. As soon as they prove to you, for instance, that yo... ...n in barbarous ages, he is still far from having learnt to act as reason and science would dictate. But yet you are fully convinced that he will be su... ... learn when he gets rid of certain old bad habits, and when common sense and science have completely re educated human nature and turned it in a norm...

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...Omega: The Last Days of the World is a science fiction novel published in 1894 by Camille Flammarion. On 25th century Earth, a comet made mostly of Carbonic-Oxide (CO) could possibly collide with the Earth. It is concerned with the philosophy and...

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...The Sophistical Elenchi is the sixth of Aristotle's six texts on logic which are collectively known as the Organon (Instrument). In the Sophistical Elenchi Aristotle identifies 13 falacies. Verbal Fallacies are: Accent or Emphasis; Amphibology; Equivocation; Com...

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...In The Concept of Nature , Alfred North Whitehead discusses the interrelatedness of time, space, and human perception. The idea of objects as 'occasions of experience', arguments against body-mind duality and the search for an all-encompass...

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...Excerpt: CANTO I. In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct: and e?en to tell It were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth, Which to remember only, my dismay Re...

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... This publication of The Divine Comedy of Dante , Translated by H.F. Cary , is a publication of the Pennsylva... ...rsity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ... for the file as an electronic trans mission, in any way. The Divine Comedy of Dante , Translated by H.F. Cary , the Pennsylvania State University, J... ...that a tribe in honour high That place possess’d. “O thou, who every art And science valu’st! who are these, that boast Such honour, separate from all... ...s celestial Goodness; and this knot Perplex’d unravel.” He thus made reply: “Philosophy, to an attentive ear, Clearly points out, not in one part alon... ... v. 62. Guido thy son Had in contempt.]Guido Cavalcanti, being more given to philosophy than poetry, was perhaps no great admirer of Virgil. Some poet... ...o of Sienna, who is said to have been a fellow student of Dante’s in natural philosophy. CANTO XXX. v. 4. Athamas.] From Ovid, Metam. 1. iv. ... ...deed Over this city, nam’d with such debate Of adverse gods, and whence each science sparkles, Avenge thee of those arms, whose bold embrace Hath clas... ...g the school, and in composing his voluminous works on divinity and natural science. He died in 1280. The absurd imputation of his having dealt in...

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...Excerpt: On the thirteenth of January of this present year, 1865, at halfpast twelve in the day, Elena Ivanovna, the wife of my cultured friend Ivan Matveitch, who is a colleague in the same department, and may be said to be a distant relation of mine,...

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... Crocodile” by Fyodor Dostoevsky, trans. Constance Garnett is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document File is furn... ...ersity. This Portable Document File is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Docu ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit... ...scientific study of nature on the spot, in the living sub ject. The natural sciences are all the fashion nowadays, botany …. He could live there and ... ...r mation of the crocodile is quite in keeping with the teachings of natural science. If, for instance, one had to construct a new croco dile, the qu... ..., get in and keep him company, and spend your life discuss ing some tedious science … .” “You are wrong to laugh at this suggestion” — I checked ...