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THE HISTORICAL POINT OF VIEW
The scope of history.
1. History, in the broadest sense of the word, is all that we know ... 71
7 The Empire of Charlemagne 82–83
8 Treaty of Verdun 93
9 Treaty of Mersen 95
10 Fiefs and Suzerains of the Counts of Champagne 113
11 France at the Close of the Reign of Philip Augustus ... an outline of the historyof the Roman Empire during the
centuries immediately preceding the barbarian invasions, see BOTSFORD, Historyof
Rome, WEST, Ancient History to the Death of Charlemagne,...
... stage of simple faith and that therefore they cannot have any
philosophy at all in the proper sense of the term. Thus Professor Frank Thilly of the Cornell University says in
his HistoryofPhilosophy ... many discussions of difficult problems and diverse
important bearings of each of the systems to many interesting aspects of philosophy. This I hope may be
excused in a historyofphilosophy which ... developed by the untiring energy of its adherents through all the successive ages of history, and a
history of this growth is a historyof its conflicts. No study of any Indian system is therefore...
... mere reminders of the past the historyofphilosophy is not a
cabinet of antiquities, but a museum of typical products of the mind the value and interest of the historical
study of the past in ... broad cloak of the Hegelian dialectic method, beside the reflection of the Critique of Reason and of
the Science of Knowledge, the fancies of the Philosophyof Nature, the deep inwardness of Böhme, ... History and
his Theory of Religion
CHAPTER XI.
SCHELLING
1a. Philosophyof Nature 1b. Transcendental Philosophy 2. System of Identity 3a. Doctrine of Freedom 3b.
Philosophy of Mythology and Revelation
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History is no easy science; its subject, human society, ... of Alexandria (d.
336), had been condemned by the Council of Nicæa. The followers of Arius did not have the same conception
of Christ's nature and of the relations of the three members of ... part of my
manuscript. The proof has been revised by my colleague, Professor William A. Dunning, Professor Edward P.
Cheyney of the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Ernest F. Henderson, and by Professor...
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Christianity—but this book is primarily a presentation of the historyof philosophy. It
does not pretend to be a historyof science or a general historyof ideas.
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work ... histories of problems—often of high standard—and
collections of material—sometimes on a most unambitious level—but hardly a history of
philosophy in the modern sense. The modern historian ofphilosophy ... IONIAN NATURAL PHILOSOPHY
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The birthplace of philosophy, Miletus, was from the beginning of historical times a Greek
settlement on the south -western coast of Asia Minor...
... the Historyof Philosophy, the Philosophyof History, the
Philosophy of Religion, Æsthetics, etc., made up with much literary skill from the Professor's own notes and
from the reports of ... 138
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which there is a good...
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history. Thought patterns and knowledge can only exist as a result of the cumulative
habits of human culture:
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on great importance in the development of new styles of music; changes in the forms and
structure of music; as well as the appearance of ... a key to a partly different story
of the historyofWestern music as it is usually still told. In what follows I can only
summarize the most important trains of thoughts analysed in greater detail...
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provided a sufficient number of cases of association are known, and no cases of failure of
association are known. The probability of the general law is ... kinds. Knowledge
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simpler than any knowledge of truths, and logically independent of knowledge of truths,
though...
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of ... no work short of a book could cover the entirety of lipstick’s
history across all of time and space though, such interesting information must unfortunately fall outside the scope of this paper.
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of, or other relevant exposure from, the additive and of any substance formed in or on
food, drugs or devices, or cosmetics because of the use of the additive, (ii) the cumulative
effect. . .of...
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the medical care in ancient Egypt, had additional titles suggesting that they specialized in
treating various parts of the body: Physician of the Eyes, Physician of the Belly, Shepherd of ... series of tests for fertility,
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procedures, including the induction of vomiting and examination of the ... arise at the time of delivery in the medical papyri of ancient Egypt, there is evidence
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ratio of the number of deaths to number of patients cured over a
fixed period of ... others in their estimates of the burden of
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overflowing of a fountain being the most common.
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of substance and accident, of the creation of the world, of the existence, unity and incorporeality of God, of
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