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  • Vox Populi
    George Boas
    Originally published in 1969. The proverb vox populi, vox Dei first appeared in a work by Alcuin (ca. 798), who wrote that "the people [] are to be led, not followed. [] Nor are those to be listened to who are accustomed to say, 'The voice of the people is the voice of God.'" Tracing the changing meaning of the saying through European history, George Boas finds that "th...
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  • Studies in Intellectual History
    George Boas
    George Boas (1891-1980) is the first of nine contributors to this volume. Boas was a professor of philosophy at Johns Hopkins University for over thirty years, a Guggenheim fellow, and a central figure in the Journal of the History of Ideas and the fabled History of Ideas Club. ...
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  • Rationalism in Greek Philosophy
    George Boas
    Originally published in 1961. Greek philosophers were concerned with the distinction between appearance and reality, and all the differences in their philosophic systems were ultimately predicated on their different views of this distinction. The history of Greek rationalism is, then, a study of the changing basis of Greek philosophy. George Boas provides a historical account o...
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  • Pamphlets
    Franz Boas / George Grant MacCurdy
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important ...
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  • Kwakiutl Texts
    Franz Boas / George Hunt
    Kwakiutl Texts is a book written by Franz Boas, a renowned anthropologist, and linguist. The book is a compilation of traditional stories and myths of the Kwakiutl people, an indigenous community living in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. The book is written in English but includes the original Kwakiutl text, providing a valuable resource for linguists and anthrop...
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  • The Hieroglyphics of Horapollo
    Horapollo Niliacus / George Boas
    Written reputedly by an Egyptian magus, Horapollo Niliacus, in the fourth century C.E., The Hieroglyphics of Horapollo is an anthology of nearly two hundred 'hieroglyphics,' or allegorical emblems, said to have been used by the Pharaonic scribes in describing natural and moral aspects of the world. Translated into Greek in 1505, it informed much of Western iconography from the ...
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