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1.2 The Birth of Modern Philosophy

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A series of lectures delivered by Peter Millican to first-year philosophy students at the University of Oxford. The lectures comprise the 8-week General Philosophy course and were delivered in late 2009.

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  • @germuesi

    The only mistake that I noticed was their forgetting to disable the comments option.

  • @germuesi They were greek in a cultural way, remember that nationalism and nation states are a 19th century concept. It is, however, more than likely that the pre-socratic thinkers were influenced by eastern thought. The birthplace of many pre-socratic philosophers lies in what is now western Turkey, these ideas could very well be traveling along existing trade routs.

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  • @oxford Citation needed, please.

  • scholarly opinion is divided on some of those points, @stonemanrichard. 

  • de rerum natura m? what is the m? doing there. o tempora o mores

  • I think he is talking about Western Philosophy, and aristotle was greek ...

  • Well I think your wrong about them not being Greek obviously you haven't studied your history well enough.

  • @germuesi

    Beethoven was Albanian, as was Confucius, but Alexander the Great came from Barnsley.

  • For top philosophy of religion & sceptical analysis of Bible & religion try Robert M Price,'The reason driven life', John W. Loftus, Dan Barker, Victor J. Stenger. E.A.Wallis Budge translation of, 'The Papyrus of Ani' (1500BCE comp O.T.800-300BCE ish), Donald A. Mackenzie,' Egyptian myth and legend', James G Frazer, 'The Golden Bough', Thomas Paine, Joseph Wheless, Robert Ingersoll, C.Dennis Mckinsey, Valerie Tarico , wisdomcommons

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