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He is chiefly noted for his doctrine that “Man is the measure of all things, of things that are that they are, and of things that are not that they are not.” This is interpreted as meaning that each man is the measure of all things, and that, when men differ, there is no objective truth in virtue of which one is right and the other wrong. The doctr
... See moreBertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy
“I declare that neither pope nor bishop nor any other person has the right to impose a syllable of law upon a Christian man without his own consent.”
David Nirenberg • Anti-Judaism
The doctrine of the perspicuity of scripture says that scripture is clear enough to provide us with salvation and correct doctrine.
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
Pois ocorre com frequência que, mesmo tendo razão, nos deixemos confundir ou refutar por uma argumentação meramente aparente, ou inversamente;
Arthur Schopenhauer • A arte de ter razão: 38 estratagemas (Vozes de Bolso) (Portuguese Edition)
Contudo, o corpo político ou o soberano, extraindo sua existência cinicamente da pureza do contrato, não pode jamais obrigar-se, mesmo para com outrem, a nada que derrogue esse ato primitivo, como alienar qualquer porção de si mesmo, ou submeter-se a outro soberano. Violar o…
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau • Do Contrato Social (Portuguese Edition)
We are not substances but modes of substance: ways in which substance is modified or affected.
Benedictus de Spinoza, Clare Carlisle, • Spinoza's Ethics
Mas, para aqueles que não estão convencidos, para aqueles que duvidam da veracidade dessas promessas, o problema, é claro, permanece. E é justamente aí que, por assim dizer, entra a filosofia.
Luc Ferry • Aprender a viver: Filosofia para os novos tempos (Portuguese Edition)
Without being fabricated by the present conditions of the citta, it does not arise, and is not this or that, or any particular way.