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Francis Bacon and British Empiricism

History of Philosophy, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science

August 16, 2019/by Darrell Arnold

RETURN TO TABLE OF CONTENTS The best known of the British empiricists are John Locke (1632-1704), Bishop George Berkeley (1685-1753), and David Hume (1711-1776). Locke...

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Other Sophists

History of Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Reason

August 15, 2019/by Darrell Arnold

RETURN TO TABLE OF CONTENTS Other Sophists On various issues the sophists were clearly not of one mind. Callicles and Hippias of Elis both disagreed with...

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Protagoras

History of Philosophy, Metaphysics, Moral theory, Political Philosophy

August 15, 2019/by Darrell Arnold

RETURN TO TABLE OF CONTENTS Protagoras Agnosticism Protagoras, who in antiquity was often thought to be an atheist, is often considered the most important of the sophists. ...

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Parmenides and the Eleatics

History of Philosophy

August 14, 2019/by Darrell Arnold

RETURN TO TABLE OF CONTENTS Parmenides Hans Georg Gadamer, on of Germany's most important 20th century hermeneutical philosophers and classical scholars, emphasizes in particular the importance...

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