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... reason . Whoever used the term ' reason ' in that age took it to mean a source of true knowledge , a way of finding out the truth . But what is the way ? The Cambridge Platonists rejected the mediaeval , scholastic method of speculation ...
... reason . Whoever used the term ' reason ' in that age took it to mean a source of true knowledge , a way of finding out the truth . But what is the way ? The Cambridge Platonists rejected the mediaeval , scholastic method of speculation ...
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... reason on the one side with the rational being of God , and on the other with the moral life of man , flowed two corollary beliefs . The first was that morality is absolute and immutable . ' Good and Evil are not by positive Institution ...
... reason on the one side with the rational being of God , and on the other with the moral life of man , flowed two corollary beliefs . The first was that morality is absolute and immutable . ' Good and Evil are not by positive Institution ...
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... reason . Within each man , the Ramists taught , are sparks of natural reason . This natural reason is best able to intuit the connections between things in the orderly universe - in short , to construct ' arguments ' of the sort defined ...
... reason . Within each man , the Ramists taught , are sparks of natural reason . This natural reason is best able to intuit the connections between things in the orderly universe - in short , to construct ' arguments ' of the sort defined ...
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Political theory and political practice | 34 |
Population economy and society in Miltons England | 72 |
The educational background | 102 |
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