Initiation into Philosophy
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Initiation into Philosophy is by Émile Faguet, of the French Academy, translated from the French by Sir Homer Gordon, Bart., 1914. The contents list names, among others, Part I, Antiquity, with chapters on Before Socrates, The Sophists, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. The contents list also names, among others, Part II, In the Middle Ages, and Part III, Modern Times.
The text says Democritus of Abdera, disciple of Leucippus of Abdera (about whom nothing is known), is the inventor of the theory of atoms. The text says matter is composed of an infinite number of tiny indivisible bodies which are called atoms. The text calls Thomas Hobbes, above all else, a literary man and a sociologist who translated Thucydides and Homer and wrote Leviathan, or the Matter, Form, and Power of a Commonwealth.
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- Author
- Émile Faguet
- Reading time
- About 3 hours
- Pages
- 102
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Educational
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