Greek Philosophy: Thales to Plato, Bind 1

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Macmillan, 1920 - 360 sider

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Side 238 - To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is false, while to say of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not...
Side 114 - Man is the measure of all things, of things that are that they are, and of things that are not that they are not.
Side 130 - He was a firm believer in the immortality of the soul and in the life to come, doctrines which were strange and unfamiliar to the Athenians of his day.
Side 198 - To the bastard belong all these ; sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch. The trueborn is quite apart from these." That is the answer of Demokritos to Protagoras. He had said that honey, for instance, was both bitter and sweet, sweet to me and bitter to you. In reality it was "no more such than such" (ovSev /JLO\\OV rolov q Tofoc).
Side 117 - With regard to the gods, I cannot feel sure either that they are or that they are not...
Side 67 - Can it fo thought or not? Parmenides goes on to consider in the light of this principle the consequences of saying that anything is. In the first place, it cannot have come into being. If it had, it must have arisen from nothing or from something. It cannot have arisen from nothing ; for there is no nothing. It cannot have arisen from something ; for there is nothing else than what is.
Side 12 - the religious instinct"; "the faith", namely, "that reality is divine, and that the one thing needful is for the soul, which is akin to the divine, to enter into communion with it".
Side 35 - Homer and Hesiod have ascribed to the gods all things that are a shame and a disgrace among mortals, stealings and adulteries and deceivings of one another.
Side 198 - If a cone is cut by a plane parallel to its base, what...
Side 238 - That definition agrees with what Protagoras said in another form about knowledge, namely, that man is the measure of all things, of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not. This means that as a thing appears to me, so it is to me, and as it appears to you, so it is to you. Instead of saying "as a thing appears to me...

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