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John Locke. Ideas and reasoning ability
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Blaise Pascal. Pascal’s law. The Great Fluid Equilibrium Experiment
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Thomas Hobbes. About the Citizen and Leviathan
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Francis Bacon. The mind left to its own devices has little power
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Philosophy of the Renaissance. A period of rapid and intense cultural development
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Scholasticism. Seven Liberal Arts. Philosophy is the handmaiden of theology
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Patristics. The body of teachings of the Christian Church Fathers
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Philosophy in the Middle Ages. Defenders of the Faith and the Church
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Skepticism. Pyrrho, Timon, Arcesilaus, Carneades, Aenesidemus, Agrippa. They seek the truth, but do not find it
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Philosophy of Stoa. Zeno, Chrysippus, Panetius, Posidonius, Seneca, Musonia Rufus, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius
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Epicurus. Delivering the human soul from suffering
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Philosophy of the Hellenistic era. The life of a private person
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Aristotle. Division of Sciences, Logic and the Doctrine of Knowledge
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Plato. Academy, philosophical school
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Sophists and Socrates. Protagoras, Gorgias, Hippias and Thrasymachus. Dialectics
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Pre-Socratics. Organized and orderly integrity of things
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The formation of philosophy in Ancient Greece. The emergence of philosophical and scientific knowledge
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Philosophy of Antiquity. Philosophy of the ancient Greeks and Romans
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Chinese philosophy. Features, origin and development of Chinese philosophy
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The Universe in One Atom: Science and Spirituality in the Service of the World. 7. Towards a science of consciousness
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The Universe in One Atom: Science and Spirituality in the Service of the World. 6. The problem of the emergence of consciousness
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