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... Schools . Both had the same object of interest , to ascertain the nature , the origin , the laws , the destiny of ... school , Thales of Mile- tus , a contemporary of Solon ( B.C. 640-550 ) , said to be of Phenician descent . With him ...
... Schools . Both had the same object of interest , to ascertain the nature , the origin , the laws , the destiny of ... school , Thales of Mile- tus , a contemporary of Solon ( B.C. 640-550 ) , said to be of Phenician descent . With him ...
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... schools of Italy . Thus there is something of a Pythago- rean colour in fragments 46 and 47 quoted above . We must now cross the water with Pythagoras of 1 Ανθρώπους μένει τελευτήσαντας ἅσσα οὐκ ἔλπονται οὐδὲ δοκέουσι . 2 Κακοὶ μάρτυρες ...
... schools of Italy . Thus there is something of a Pythago- rean colour in fragments 46 and 47 quoted above . We must now cross the water with Pythagoras of 1 Ανθρώπους μένει τελευτήσαντας ἅσσα οὐκ ἔλπονται οὐδὲ δοκέουσι . 2 Κακοὶ μάρτυρες ...
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... school ' . He seems to have found in the mysteries and in the Orphic hymns the starting point which Thales had discovered in Homer ; and there can be little doubt that his doctrine and system were also in part suggested by his travels ...
... school ' . He seems to have found in the mysteries and in the Orphic hymns the starting point which Thales had discovered in Homer ; and there can be little doubt that his doctrine and system were also in part suggested by his travels ...
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... school appears to have died out altogether about the middle of the 4th century B.C. , but revived in the time of Cicero . The new and startling feature in the Pythagorean philosophy , as opposed to the Ionic systems , was that it found ...
... school appears to have died out altogether about the middle of the 4th century B.C. , but revived in the time of Cicero . The new and startling feature in the Pythagorean philosophy , as opposed to the Ionic systems , was that it found ...
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... schools was the Eleatic , founded by Xenophanes of Colophon in Asia Minor ( b . 569 B.C. ) , who migrated to Elea in Italy about 540 B.C. While the Pythagoreans strove to explain nature mathe- matically and symbolically , the Eleatics ...
... schools was the Eleatic , founded by Xenophanes of Colophon in Asia Minor ( b . 569 B.C. ) , who migrated to Elea in Italy about 540 B.C. While the Pythagoreans strove to explain nature mathe- matically and symbolically , the Eleatics ...
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