Gateway to the Great Books: Philosophical essaysRobert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler Encyclopædia Britannica, 1963 - 644 pages Complements Great Books of the Western World; includes only short works and excerpts from longer works. |
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Robert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler. ย GATEWAY TO THE GREAT BOOKS Y GATEWAY TO THE GREAT BOOKS VOLUME 2 DEFOE KIPLING HUGO. SYNGE O'NEILL CARLYLE EMERSON HAWTHORNE WHITMAN VOLUME 5 VIRGINIA WOOLF VIRGINIA WOOLF ARNOLD SAINTE ...
Robert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler. ย GATEWAY TO THE GREAT BOOKS Y GATEWAY TO THE GREAT BOOKS VOLUME 2 DEFOE KIPLING HUGO. SYNGE O'NEILL CARLYLE EMERSON HAWTHORNE WHITMAN VOLUME 5 VIRGINIA WOOLF VIRGINIA WOOLF ARNOLD SAINTE ...
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... Books movement , it is John Erskine . It was he who organized the first Great Books discussion classes at Columbia University . He suggested such classes as early as 1916 , but it was not until 1920 that they were first offered . Each ...
... Books movement , it is John Erskine . It was he who organized the first Great Books discussion classes at Columbia University . He suggested such classes as early as 1916 , but it was not until 1920 that they were first offered . Each ...
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... Books of the Western World , Vol . 12 , p . 4 ( Ed . ) . ] 4. An excellent expression of this view is put by Plato into the mouth of the physician Eryximachus in the Symposium . [ See Great Books of the Western World , Vol . 7 , pp ...
... Books of the Western World , Vol . 12 , p . 4 ( Ed . ) . ] 4. An excellent expression of this view is put by Plato into the mouth of the physician Eryximachus in the Symposium . [ See Great Books of the Western World , Vol . 7 , pp ...
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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