God in Greek Philosophy to the Time of SocratesPrinceton University Press for the University of Cincinnati, 1931 - 157 страници A scholarly account of the views on the nature of God held by Greek philosophers up to the time of Socrates. Originally published in 1937. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. |
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Страница 105 - All other things partake in a portion of everything, while Nous is infinite and self-ruled, and is mixed with nothing, but is alone, itself by itself.
Страница 29 - Strength will be right and reverence will cease to be; and the wicked will hurt the worthy man, speaking false words against him, and will swear an oath upon them. Envy, foul-mouthed, delighting in evil, with scowling face, will go along with wretched men one and all. And then Aidos and Nemesis, with their sweet forms wrapped in white robes, will go from the wide-pathed earth and forsake mankind to join the company of the deathless gods: and bitter sorrows will be left for mortal men, and there will...
Страница 69 - Much learning does not teach one to have understanding ; else it would have taught Hesiod, and Pythagoras, and again Xenophanes, and Hekataios.
Страница 60 - All things that come into being and grow are earth and water. 11. The sea is the source of water and the source of wind; for neither would...
Страница 72 - God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, satiety and hunger...
Страница 42 - he got the notion perhaps from seeing that the nutriment of all things is moist, and that heat itself* is generated by the moist and kept alive by it ... and that the seed of all creatures has a moist nature, and water is the origin of the nature of moist things".
Страница 121 - Democritus, however, does seem not only to have thought carefully about all the problems, but also to be distinguished from the outset by his method. For, as we are saying, none of the other philosophers made any definite statement about growth, except such as any amateur might have made. They said that things grow 'by the accession of like to like', but they did not proceed to explain the manner of this accession. Nor did they give any account of 'combination': and they neglected almost every single...
Страница 125 - is sweet, by convention bitter, by convention hot, by convention cold, by convention color; but by verity atoms and void." This means: Sensible objects are conventionally assumed and opined to exist, but they do not truly exist, but only the atoms and the void.
Страница 42 - ... perhaps from seeing that the nutriment of all things is moist, and that heat itself is generated from the moist and kept alive by it (and that from which they come to be is a principle of all things).
Страница 73 - To God all things are beautiful and good and just ; but men have supposed some things to be unjust and others just.