History of Philosophy
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Geschichte der Philosophie · Geschichte der neueren Philosophie · history · history of philosophy · philosophy
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Panathenaicus (Greek)
I suppose rather that you will object that, whereas you have deliberately chosen to compose a discourse which is not at all like any other, but which to those who read it casually will appear to be ingenuous and easy to comprehend, though to those who scan it thoroughly and endeavor to see in it what has escaped all others it will reveal itself as difficult and hard to understand, packed with hist …
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Panathenaicus
The forms of knowledge embedded in the discourse alongside rhetorical devices and fictions.
I suppose rather that you will object that, whereas you have deliberately chosen to compose a discourse which is not at all like any other, but which to those who read it casually will appear to be ingenuous and easy to comprehend, though to those who scan it thoroughly and endeavor to see in it what has escaped all others it will reveal itself as difficult and hard to understand, packed with hist …
History of Modern Philosophy from Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time
The discipline of tracing the development of philosophical thought; defended and methodologized in the introduction.
In treating the history of philosophy, two extremes must be avoided, lawless individualism and abstract logical formalism.
The history of philosophy is the philosophy of humanity, that great individual, which, with more extended vision than the instruments through which it works, is able to entertain opposing principles, and which, reconciling old contradictions as it discovers new ones, approaches by a necessary and certain growth the knowledge of the one all-embracing truth, which is rich and varied beyond our conception.
If it is thus indubitable that the views of the world held in earlier times deserve to live on in the memory of man, and to live as something better than mere reminders of the past--the history of philosophy is not a cabinet of antiquities, but a museum of typical products of the mind--the value and interest of the historical study of the past in relation to the exact scientific side of philosophi …