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... SEXTUS EMPIRICUS AND GREEK SCEPTICISM A Thesis accepted for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the University of Bern Switzerland, November... ...ty of Bern Switzerland, November 1897 BY MARY MILLS PATRICK PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE, CONSTANTINOPLE TURKEY This Thesis is accomp... ...STANTINOPLE TURKEY This Thesis is accompanied by a Translation from the Greek of the First Book of the "Pyrrhonic Sketches" by Sextus Empiricus... ...LEXANDRA STREET PREFACE The following treatise on Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism has been prepared to supply a need much felt in the Eng... ...ven by both Fabricius and Bekker. References to Diogenes Laertius and other ancient works have been carefully verified. The principal modern authors... ...e that he was not named Empiricus for that reason. There is one instance in ancient writings where Empiricus is known as a simple proper name. [1] ... ...ury B.C. [6] The Basilides referred to by Sextus may be one mentioned in a list of twenty Stoics, in a fragment of Diogenes Laertius, recently publ... ... direction of thought, is demonstrated by its formulated teachings, and the list given by Diogenes Laertius of its principal leaders, [1] and by ref... ...rected agai nst the sciences in general, and the other against the dogmatic philosophers. The six books composing the first of these are written res...

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...ederick C. Ahrens and Abdel Ross Wentz INTRODUCTION The primary importance of this treatise for the present-day reader of Luther lies in its courage... ... for the present-day reader of Luther lies in its courageous interpretation of the sacraments. But it is important also for its place in Luther’s pro... ...ion in both kinds and other weighty subjects: here I must take pains lest I listen in vain to these “eminent teachers” 8 of mine. A certain Italian... ...ee magpies are addressing me, the first in good Latin, the second in better Greek, the third in purest Hebrew. ... ... friendly and an unfriendly spirit? A fine fellow, indeed, as you know! But listen to our distinguished distinguisher of “kinds,” 17 to whom the dec... ...ic Encyclopedia (15 vols.), IV, 650. 19 Anaxagoras (circa 500–428 B.C.), a Greek philosopher, was accused of atheism by his contemporaries because o... ...s. Maurice Bévenot, S. J. (Westminster, Maryland, 1957), p. 31. (Vol. 25 of Ancient Christian Writers.) 50 infanti, a child under the age of seven ... ...romises of God from the beginning of the world; indeed, whatever value those ancient promises possessed was altogether derived from this new promise ... ...e is unable to prove it, and yet is most certain of having it. For as among philosophers no one judges the general concepts, but all are judged by th...

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...Introduction: In an age of materialism like our own the phenomenon of spiritual power is as significant and inspiring as it is rare. No longer associated with the ?divine right? of kings, it has survived the downfall of feudal and theocratic systems...

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...ries by Leo Tolstoy, trans. Louise and Aylmer Maude is a publi cation of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ........................................................................... 4 LIST OF POSTHUMOUS WORKS ..................................................... ...onal emanation in place of a coercive weapon of statecraft. Freed from its ancient shackles of dogma and despo tism it eludes analysis. We know not h... ...entimentality peculiar to the poets, a bloodless abstraction toyed with by philosophers, which must remain a closed book to struggling humanity. Yet T... ... God although sunk in su perstition and held down by the despotism of the Greek Leo Tolstoy 6 Church. It was the cumbrous ritual and dogma of the or... ...elf to chat and sing at night. He sang, not like a singer who knows he has listeners, but as the birds sing to God, the Father of all, feeling it as n... ..., – In those two years of intellectual work, I discovered a truth which is ancient and simple, but which yet I know better than others do. I found out... ...rines which we have re ceived from Egyptian, Jewish, Hindoo, Chinese, and Greek antiquity. The two great principles of Jesus: love of God – in a word...

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