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Rembrandt and His Works. E-book. Formato EPUB
John Burnet
edizioni Skyline collana , 2017
In commencing an account of the life of Rembrandt Van Rhÿn and his works, I feel both a pleasure and a certain degree of confidence, as, from my first using a pencil, his pictures have been my delight and gratification, which have continued to increase through a long life of investigation. Though I cannot expect...
Greek Philosophy: Thales to Plato. E-book. Formato PDF
John Burnet
edizioni Forgotten Books collana , 2017
It is unfortunate in some respects that I have been obliged to deal with certain parts of the subject in a form which does not admit of detailed argument and still less of controversy. The second edition of my Early Greek Philosophy (referred to as E. Gr. Ph.2) makes this in large measure unnecessary in Book I but...
Early Greek philosophy. E-book. Formato EPUB
John Burnet
edizioni Librorium Editions collana , 2022
I. It was not till the primitive view of the world and the customary rules of life had broken down, that the Greeks, began to feel the needs which philosophies of nature and of conduct seek to satisfy. Nor were those needs felt all at once. The traditional maxims of conduct were not seriously questioned till the old...
The Socratic Doctrine of the Soul. E-book. Formato PDF
John Burnet
edizioni Forgotten Books collana , 2017
First, however, it should be noted that there are many echoes of the phrase in all the Socratic literature. Xenophon uses it in con texts which do not appear to be derived from Plato's dialogues. Antisthenes, it seems, employed the phrase too, and he would hardly have borrowed it from Plato. Isocrates refers to it...