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... Krische , Die theologischen Lehren der griechischen Denker . Döllinger , The Gentile and the Jew , translated by Darnell . Grant , Ethics of Aristotle , Vol . 1 . A. Butler , Lectures on Ancient Philosophy . The Fragmenta Philosophorum ...
... Krische , Die theologischen Lehren der griechischen Denker . Döllinger , The Gentile and the Jew , translated by Darnell . Grant , Ethics of Aristotle , Vol . 1 . A. Butler , Lectures on Ancient Philosophy . The Fragmenta Philosophorum ...
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... Krische ( p . 23 ) and Hirzel , that the latter section was inserted as an afterthought . Thus in § 36 we find ut jam ad vestros Balbe veniam , though the Stoics , whom Balbus represents , had been already treated of in the earlier ...
... Krische ( p . 23 ) and Hirzel , that the latter section was inserted as an afterthought . Thus in § 36 we find ut jam ad vestros Balbe veniam , though the Stoics , whom Balbus represents , had been already treated of in the earlier ...
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... Krische Die theologischen Lehren der Griechischen Denker p . 7. The word agnitio is not used else- where by C. On the distinction between it and cognitio ( read by Wolf and others ) see Schömann's Opusc . III 291 , Heidtmann zur Krit ...
... Krische Die theologischen Lehren der Griechischen Denker p . 7. The word agnitio is not used else- where by C. On the distinction between it and cognitio ( read by Wolf and others ) see Schömann's Opusc . III 291 , Heidtmann zur Krit ...
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... Krische p . 7. ) But this explanation is unsatis- factory on several grounds ; ( 1 ) there is no reason for making any refer- ence to the origin of philosophy , ( 2 ) the present discrepancy of opinions is no argument as to what may ...
... Krische p . 7. ) But this explanation is unsatis- factory on several grounds ; ( 1 ) there is no reason for making any refer- ence to the origin of philosophy , ( 2 ) the present discrepancy of opinions is no argument as to what may ...
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... Krische p . 19 thinks that C.'s reason for omitting the Peripatetic school was the obscurity of Aristotle's teaching on the points which are here discussed . A more probable reason is that on these points he accepted Antiochus ...
... Krische p . 19 thinks that C.'s reason for omitting the Peripatetic school was the obscurity of Aristotle's teaching on the points which are here discussed . A more probable reason is that on these points he accepted Antiochus ...
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