Background to Modern ThoughtWatts, 1947 - 174 sider |
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CHAP | 1 |
THE CONTRIBUTION OF EARLY GREECE | 8 |
THE PLATONIC PHILOSOPHY | 15 |
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A. N. Whitehead accepted achieved aim of science animals argued argument Aristotle attempt attitude Averroes Bacon behaviour believe called CHAPTER characteristic Christian Church civilization common considered correlate deductive system Democritus disagreement discovery doctrine Empire equality ethical propositions Euclidean geometry Europe example existence experience explain external world fact fundamental G. G. Coulton Galileo geometry given Greek H. A. L. Fisher held human ideal ideas important individual induction influence intellectual interpreted J. G. FRAZER kind liberty lived logical mathematical matter means metaphysical method Middle Ages modern monasticism moral Moslem nature Neo-Platonism Newton Newtonian observation obtained outlook perhaps philosophy Plato position possible present priori probably problem problem of induction Pythagoras realize reason Reformation religion religious result Scholastic Scholasticism scientific knowledge scientific method scientific thought scientists seems sense society Socrates soul speculations theory things thirteenth century tion to-day true truth universal agreement verified words