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This is the main page for Metaphysics in Ancient Akkadia. From here, you can review and then navigate to the various sections and their selections.
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This is the main page for Metaphysics in Ancient Assyria. From here, you can review and then navigate to the various sections and their selections.
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This is the main page for Metaphysics in Ancient Babylonia. From here, you can review and then navigate to the various sections and their selections.
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This page chronicles the development of the first organized system of Astrology, by the Babylonians, beginning around 2000 BCE.
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This page identifys the designations and relationships the ancient Babylonians made between the celestial bodies in the heavens and their gods.
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This page identifys the interpretation system Babylonian priests applied themselves to in order to interpret phenomena observed in the heavens.
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This page identifys three characteristic limitations Babylonian Astrology experienced in its early stages.
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This is the main page for Metaphysics in Ancient Greece. From here, you can review and then navigate to the various sections and their selections.
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This is the main page for Metaphysics in Ancient Phoenicia. From here, you can review and then navigate to the various sections and their selections.
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This is the main page for Metaphysics in Ancient Rome. From here, you can review and then navigate to the various sections and their selections.
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This is the main page for Metaphysics in Ancient Sumeria. From here, you can review and then navigate to the various sections and their selections.
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This is the main page for the Ancient Metaphysics Library. From here, you can review and then navigate to the various sections and their selections.
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This article deals with the Nimrud lens. It was found in 1850 by the archaeologist Sir John Layard, during a series of excavations at the palace of Nimrud in what is now Iraq.
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This article deals with ancient Babylonian clay tablet records of early celestial observations and forecasts..
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This article deals with ancient Babylonian astronomers and their many recorded observations and predictions of lunar and solar eclipses.
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This is the Ancient Metaphysics Library Audio Books Section. From here, you can navigate to review, purchase, and download the various Audio Books offered for your study of Ancient Metaphysics.
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Living Biographies of Great Philosophers include: Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Epicurus, Marcus Aurelius, Thomas Aquinas, Francis Bacon, Descartes, Spinoza, Locke, Hume, Voltaire, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Emerson, Spencer, Nietzsche, William James, Henri-Louis Bergson, and Santayana.
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Aristotle thought human beings are one with the rest of nature, yet set apart from it by their ability to reason. Aristotle also provided the first systematic expositions of physics, biology, psychology and the standards of literature.
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Aristotle wrote on everything from the shape of seashells to sterility, to speculations on the nature of the soul, to meteorology, poetry, art, and even the interpretation of dreams. Apart from mathematics, he transformed every field of knowledge that he touched.
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In Confucius in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Confucius' life and ideas and explains their influence on man's struggle to understand his existence in the world.
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China's two greatest philosophers, Confucius and Lao Tzu, were intensely interested in how we should live and how a good society is governed. The central concepts of Confucianism are li and zhen.
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Plato was the first great philosopher of the West to organize and record the issues and questions that define philosophy. A student of Socrates, Plato preserved the teachings of his mentor.
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In an age when philosophers had scarcely glimpsed the horizons of the mind, a boy named Aristocles adopted the nickname Plato and embarked on a life in philosophy.
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Though Socrates left no written works, there were many ancient accounts of his life and his philosophy. The most important of the surviving accounts are from three contemporaries along with two later Greek biographers.
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In The Nichomachean Ethics, named for their first editor, Aristotles son Nicomachus, Aristotle sets out to discover the good life for man: the life of happiness.
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In The Republic, Plato tackles the big issues of the state and the individual: how the state should be ruled, and by whom; and the way the individual should lead his life - and why.
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The Trial and the Death of Socrates remains a powerful document not least because it gives a first-hand account of the end of one of the greatest figures in history.
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This is the Ancient Metaphysics Library e-Books Section. From here, you can navigate to, open, read, and download the various e-Books offered for your study of Ancient Metaphysics.
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"What we
achieve inwardly will change outer reality."
--
Plutarch
"What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain
the whole world, and lose his own soul?"
--Jesus
Christ
"By
three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which
is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third
by experience, which is the bitterest."
--Confucius
"When I investigate and when I discover that
the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves,
then truly I seem to be living among the gods."
--Leon
Battista Alberti
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