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Unlike the Gnostics , who held that matter was essentially evil , Milton believed that matter and spirit differed only in degree , not kind , and that each contained the potentiality for goodness , though in their different degrees .
Unlike the Gnostics , who held that matter was essentially evil , Milton believed that matter and spirit differed only in degree , not kind , and that each contained the potentiality for goodness , though in their different degrees .
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All systems , he claimed , have unsound foundations : if one questions the premises of any philosopher's theory , then one is rendered helpless ; deny to Descartes his subtle matter , and he has nothing left ; refuse to accept the ...
All systems , he claimed , have unsound foundations : if one questions the premises of any philosopher's theory , then one is rendered helpless ; deny to Descartes his subtle matter , and he has nothing left ; refuse to accept the ...
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A stage behind the beast lies simple mechanism , the reduction of man to matter in motion which Hobbes needed for a kind of political Newtonianism and which the moralist could turn into a satiric reduction .
A stage behind the beast lies simple mechanism , the reduction of man to matter in motion which Hobbes needed for a kind of political Newtonianism and which the moralist could turn into a satiric reduction .
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