... three different types of ways. The first way was that some of them criticized and even at times mocked implausible or contradictory features of ordinary religious ideas. The second way was that some Pre-Socratics projected mechanical or physical causes for the events which has previously be recognized more directly ... language is somewhat explained by Aquinas. He said that religion often uses words in say somewhat in the similar or somewhat different senses from say their ordinary senses. So to say "God is good,"" what does mean empirically it is quite empty, because in the world we can...

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... suggest visual images at all for example. All these distinctions between literature and non-literature: personal expression, realization, lack of practical purpose and fictionality are restatements within a framework of semantic analysis of age old aesthetic terms such as: unity in variety, aesthetic distance, framing, invention and imitation. Literary work is not a simple object but rather a highly complex organization of a stratified character ... with multiple meanings and relationships. Literature "organized violence committed on ordinary speech" (Eagleton) While the definition of l...

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... ideal of this/ that object to be very important for its theoretical and scientific examination. At the same time, there's another aspect in Plato's concept of state: namely, the realistic analysis of political life, which is provided in the part of Plato's work, where he examines really existing forms of state. He singles out five basic forms - aristocracy, thymocracy, oligarchy, democracy ... the philosopher consider to befriendship. Friendship, in Aristotle's point of view is one of the main virtues, it is impossible to argue with it, in fact friendship is not an ordinary virtue it is...

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