Historical Philosophy in France And French Belgium And Switzerland
The book Historical Philosophy in France And French Belgium And Switzerland was written by author Flint, Robert, 1838-1910 Here you can read free online of Historical Philosophy in France And French Belgium And Switzerland book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Historical Philosophy in France And French Belgium And Switzerland a good or bad book?
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He seeks causes and endeavours to trace their operations in the complex phases of history. He endeavours especially to make apparent the influence of two classes of causes, — physical and political causes. He treats of physical causes with consider- able fulness in the fifth chapter of the ' Method, ' and in a still more detailed and developed form in the first chapter of the fifth 198 PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY IN FRAXCE. book of the 'Eepublic' That climate has an influence on the character of a pe...ople, and that there is a certain correspondence between the geography and the history of a nation, are facts so obvious that they could not fail to be noticed very early, and Hippocrates, Plato, Aristotle, Polybius, and Galen stated them explicitly and definitely ; but it is altogether unfair to put their general enunciations of the principle that physical cir- cumstances originate and modify national characteristics, on a level with Bodin's serious, sustained, and elaborate attempt to apply it over a wide area and to a vast number of cases.
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