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Academy Resources Glossary of Philosophical Terms Timeline of Philosophy A Timeline of American Philosophy Diagram: Development of Philosophic Thought Diagram: Divisions of Philosophy The Philosophy Resource Center The Religion Resource Center Books about Philosophy in The Radical Academy Bookstore Books about Religion in The Radical Academy Bookstore Click Here for New & Used College Textbooks at Discount Prices Click Here for College Education Information & Study Resources Shop Amazon Stores in the Radical Academy Bookstore Magazine Outlet Music Store Classical Music Store Video Store DVD Store Computer Store Camera & Photo Store Computer/Video Games Software Store Musical Instruments Outlet Store Cellular Phones Toys & Games Tools & Hardware Automotive Store Outdoor Living Consumer Electronics Home & Garden Kitchen & Housewares Baby Superstore Apparel & Accessories Gourmet Food Grocery Store Sporting Goods Jewelry & Watches Health & Personal Care Beauty Store		Fragments by Gorgias   [Note: Only two small fragments, probably from the treatise On Nature are extant.] Nothing exists. If ever anything did exist, it would be unknowable. If anything existed and would be knowable, the knowledge of it could not be conveyed to other people. For he who knows it, would be incapable to describe it to his fellowmen. Every sign is different from what it signifies. How can anyone communicate the idea of color by means of words, since the ear does not hear colors but only sounds? And how can two persons, different one from another, have the same idea? [Above as reported by Aristotle.] Funeral Oration For what was absent in these men which should be present in men, and what was present of things which should be absent? Would that I could say what I wish and wish what I should, evading displeasure and eluding human jealousy. For the virtue of these men was a divine possession; their mortality was human. Frequently they preferred the clemency of equity to the harshness of law; frequently, too, the righteousness of reason to the rigidity of codes. For this they held to be the most godlike and most universal code: in the right place to do aright and to speak aright, to keep silence aright, and to bear aright. It is a law of nature that the strong shall not be hindered by the weak, but that the weak shall be ruled and led by the strong; that the strong shall go before and the weak shall follow after. [Above as reported in From Thales to Plato, edited by T.V. Smith.] The Cambridge Companion to Early Greek Philosophy, edited by A. A. Long Enrich Your Life With a Philosophy Book... Enrich Your Life With a Philosophy Magazine... Academy Showcase Specials   Introduction & Directory
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