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In this article the author attempts to show what can be described as a life of ideas in culture. The starting point for the discussion is the idea of the body as the prison of the soul, which came into philosophical discourse by Orphism, then Pythagoreanism. In this way the Greek philosophy shaped the paradigm according to which the spiritual is superior to that which is bodily; that it is the primary...
This paper constitutes an endeavor to present the thought of dr Henry More, a seventeenth century English philosopher and theologian, who is regarded as one of the so-called Cambridge Platonists. Historians usually consider thinkers such as Descartes, Hobbes and Spinoza as their adversaries, but it is only partially true in relation to Henry More because in his early years he was a follower of Descartes...
African literature embodies a profound ethnographic or ethno-philosophical diverse conceptions and analysis of history and existence of man. Although it has in no little way, been considered synonymously with the teleological movement of time hence the questions ‘From where is man?’ ‘what is life?’ ‘why death?’ and ‘to where does man go’ are underlying imperatives of human existence and this to a...
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