Plato Contra Atheos: Plato Against the AtheistsHarper & brothers, 1845 - 378 pages |
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... thought that they discovered many contradictions between this work and the Republic . One has even gone so far as to say that they are opposed in every page . In this opinion , how- ever , we cannot concur ; although it must be admitted ...
... thought that they discovered many contradictions between this work and the Republic . One has even gone so far as to say that they are opposed in every page . In this opinion , how- ever , we cannot concur ; although it must be admitted ...
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... ever energizing special providence . Theism , we ad- mit , is everywhere the avowed creed , but it wants life . It is too much of a mere philosophy . There B are times when the bare thought that God is , INTRODUCTION . '
... ever energizing special providence . Theism , we ad- mit , is everywhere the avowed creed , but it wants life . It is too much of a mere philosophy . There B are times when the bare thought that God is , INTRODUCTION . '
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Plato Against the Atheists Plato Tayler Lewis. are times when the bare thought that God is , comes home to the soul with a power and a flash of light which gives a new illumination , and a more vivid in- terest to every other moral truth ...
Plato Against the Atheists Plato Tayler Lewis. are times when the bare thought that God is , comes home to the soul with a power and a flash of light which gives a new illumination , and a more vivid in- terest to every other moral truth ...
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... Thoughts capable of being fairly ac- commodated to a Spiritual Sense higher than the Author him- self had ever intended to convey . - Difference in this Re- spect between his Writings and those of all other Philoso- phers , Ancient and ...
... Thoughts capable of being fairly ac- commodated to a Spiritual Sense higher than the Author him- self had ever intended to convey . - Difference in this Re- spect between his Writings and those of all other Philoso- phers , Ancient and ...
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... thought , must have been before hard , and soft , and heavy , and light , and all the adaptations of the natural world . The Atheists had held that religion , and the belief in the existence of Gods , being the production of human law ...
... thought , must have been before hard , and soft , and heavy , and light , and all the adaptations of the natural world . The Atheists had held that religion , and the belief in the existence of Gods , being the production of human law ...
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