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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Page 411
... Faust's fortunes actually finds him a trader , a states- man , an empire builder ; and if such a rolling stone could gather any moss , we should expect to see here , if anywhere , the fruits of that " aesthetic education of mankind ...
... Faust's fortunes actually finds him a trader , a states- man , an empire builder ; and if such a rolling stone could gather any moss , we should expect to see here , if anywhere , the fruits of that " aesthetic education of mankind ...
Page 412
... Faust and his improvements . On the hillock , besides their cottage , there stood a small chapel , with a bell which disturbed Faust in his newly built palace , partly by its importunate sound , partly by its Christian sugges- tions ...
... Faust and his improvements . On the hillock , besides their cottage , there stood a small chapel , with a bell which disturbed Faust in his newly built palace , partly by its importunate sound , partly by its Christian sugges- tions ...
Page 416
... Faust with satisfaction , how much more must the wonderful career of Faust himself deserve to be accepted and envied , and pro- claimed to be its own excuse for being ! The faults of Faust in time are not counted against him in eternity ...
... Faust with satisfaction , how much more must the wonderful career of Faust himself deserve to be accepted and envied , and pro- claimed to be its own excuse for being ! The faults of Faust in time are not counted against him in eternity ...
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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action activity Aristotle atoms attitude become believe better body called cause character Church Cicero conception death Democritus Descartes divine Epictetus Epicurean Epicurus everything evidence evil existence experience fact faith Faust fear feeling friendship Gaius Laelius give Goethe habit human hypothesis idea ideal imagination important inference infinite intellectual intelligence interest judgment kind knowledge Laelius live logical look Lucretius man's matter meaning mental Mephistopheles method Metrocles mind moral nature never notion object observation old age ourselves passion person philosopher Plato pleasure Plutarch poet possible practical present problem qualities question reason reflection religion scientific Scipio seems sense Socrates soul speak Spinoza spirit Spurius Maelius suggested suppose Tarentum things Thomas thought Tiberius Gracchus tion true truth understanding universe virtue Voltaire W. K. Clifford Western World whole wish word