History of the Intellectual Development of Europe volume 1
History of the Intellectual Development of Europe volume 1
Draper John William
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] INTELLECTUAL DECREPITUDE. 223 passage through infancy, childhood, youth, and manhood to old age, a passage in which the characteristics of each period in their turn disappear, yet, nevertheless, there are certain results in another sense permanent, giving to the whole progress its proper individuality. A philosophical critical eye may discern in the successive stages Conclusions . Y, A ! -I j i J finally arrived of Greek philosophical development decisive at by tue and enduring results. These... it is for which we Greeks - have been searching in this long and tedious discussion. There are four grand topics in Greek philosophy : 1st, the existence and attributes of God ; 2nd, the origin and destiny of the world ; 3rd, the nature of the human soul; 4th, the possibility of a criterion of truth. I shall now present what appear to me to be the results at which the Greek mind arrived on each of these points. (1. ) Of the existence and attributes of God. On this point the decision of the Greek mind was the AS to God- absolute rejection of all anthropomorphic con- Hi8unit y- ceptions, even at the risk of encountering the pressure of the national superstition.
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