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grammar schools.1
It was, in fact, in the area of logic that it was Wrst appreciated that the
study of medieval texts had much to oVer. Medieval logicians had ad-
dressed questions...
... immortality as a precursor of Darwin, his
contemporary Anaxagoras is sometimes regarded as an intellectual ances-
tor of the currently popular cosmology of the big bang. Anaxagoras was
born around ... instance,
we a re told that the eYcient cause was God, that the material cause was the
dust of the earth, that the formal cause was the image and likeness of God,
and that the Wnal...
... practical application
of physics, and magic is the practical application of metaphysics.
This brisk and provocative anatomy of philosophy is not as neat as it
seems, and many of the names Bacon ... a variety
of sins (WA VII.638).
The Bible, as Erasmu s had copiously shown, contains many passages that
imply that human choices are free, and also many passages that proclaim
that th...
... Number 22 0
Modifications of Utilitarianism 22 5
Schopenhauer on Renunciation 22 8
The Moral Ascent in Kierkegaard 23 3
Nietzsche and the Transvaluation of Values 23 7
Analytic Ethics 24 2
10. Aesthetics ... Philosophy 26 9
Utilitarianism and Liberalism 26 9
Kierkegaard and Schopenhauer on Women 27 6
Marx on Capital and Labour 28 0
Closed and Open Societies 28 6
12. God 29...
... rich, and had a vast navy.
Samos was a commercial rival of Miletus; its traders went as far afield as Tartessus in Spain,
which was famous for its mines. Polycrates became tyrant of Samos about ... shrewd advice as to how
to play this game successfully. What had happened in the great age of Greece happened again in
Renaissance Italy: traditional moral restraints disappeared, becaus...
... with a riddle: Two sticks, a dash and a cake with
a stick down—what is it? Binalshibh was baffled. After the
attack on September 11, he realized that two sticks stand for
11, a dash is a dash and ... Aristotle’s eyes
said yes, but his astronomical theory said no. After gazing at
a waterfall, Aristotle saw the bank of a river apparently
moving—while simultaneously appearing s...