Plato Contra Atheos: Plato Against the AtheistsHarper & brothers, 1845 - 378 pages |
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... with the Platonic philosophy and theology , and that from this field we never depart , unless , per- haps , to dwell on kindred subjects suggested by the Holy Scriptures . Our object has not been merely to viii INTRODUCTION .
... with the Platonic philosophy and theology , and that from this field we never depart , unless , per- haps , to dwell on kindred subjects suggested by the Holy Scriptures . Our object has not been merely to viii INTRODUCTION .
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Plato Against the Atheists Plato Tayler Lewis. Holy Scriptures . Our object has not been merely to make a classical text - book , but to recommend Plato to the student or reader by every means through which attention could be drawn to ...
Plato Against the Atheists Plato Tayler Lewis. Holy Scriptures . Our object has not been merely to make a classical text - book , but to recommend Plato to the student or reader by every means through which attention could be drawn to ...
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... object of exhibiting , in connex- ion with the Platonic , the other systems of Greek phi- losophy , and their bearing upon the Christian theology . On the same grounds , it is supposed that it may be found useful to students in our ...
... object of exhibiting , in connex- ion with the Platonic , the other systems of Greek phi- losophy , and their bearing upon the Christian theology . On the same grounds , it is supposed that it may be found useful to students in our ...
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... object , then , is to recommend this noble phi- losopher to the present generation of educated young men , especially to our theologians . The present work by no means professes to set forth his system as a whole , but merely to present ...
... object , then , is to recommend this noble phi- losopher to the present generation of educated young men , especially to our theologians . The present work by no means professes to set forth his system as a whole , but merely to present ...
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... object of its guidance ( 42 ) . This brings the Athenian to the second grand division of the sub- ject , namely , the arguments of those who deny a Providence . Af- ter premising that men are led to this opinion by seeing the appa- rent ...
... object of its guidance ( 42 ) . This brings the Athenian to the second grand division of the sub- ject , namely , the arguments of those who deny a Providence . Af- ter premising that men are led to this opinion by seeing the appa- rent ...
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