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The originality of the Milesians seems to have been the choice of images by which they represented the sky and the meteors; these images retain nothing fantastic from the myths; they are borrowed either from the arts or from direct … Read More

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Christianity is not opposed to Greek philosophy as one doctrine to another doctrine. The natural and spontaneous form of Christianity is not didactic and written teaching. In the Christian communities of the apostolic age, composed of artisans and ordinary people, … Read More

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What interests the history of philosophy is less dialectic as an art of discussion than the use we try to make of it to arrive at a conception of reality. To clarify, let us recall that Boethius’ collection posed several … Read More

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We must carefully distinguish the West from the East; in the great religious controversies which marked the end of Antiquity in the East, we sense the same metaphysical concern, the same concern to determine the intelligible structure of things as … Read More

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One of the most characteristic productions of the century is De jure belli et pacis (1625) by Hugo Grotius (1583-1645), the author of the doctrine of the law of nature, which claims to find universal rules and obligatory for all … Read More

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Let us indicate, in its essential features, the change of mind produced by the prodigious success and by the diffusion of Newton’s celestial mechanics: at the beginning of the 18th century, a sort of Cartesian orthodoxy reigned almost everywhere in … Read More

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It is visible that there is, looking at things broadly, a reduction in the taste and the power of analysis which had marked the eighteenth century; from the end of the 18th century, we noticed in Rousseau and many illuminists … Read More

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The poet and the analyst, the seer and the man of reflection, after Coleridge and Carlyle, these two types emerged in English thought with extremely marked features and in irreconcilable opposition. James Mill tried to transmit to his son, John … Read More

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