Gateway to the Great Books: Philosophical essaysRobert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler Encyclopędia 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 391
... Goethe a philosopher ? And is Faust a philosophical poem ? If we say so , it must be by giving a certain latitude to our terms . Goethe was the wisest of mankind ; too wise , perhaps , to be a philosopher in the technical sense , or to ...
... Goethe a philosopher ? And is Faust a philosophical poem ? If we say so , it must be by giving a certain latitude to our terms . Goethe was the wisest of mankind ; too wise , perhaps , to be a philosopher in the technical sense , or to ...
Page 397
... Goethe's Faust could not be more complete . Both poets take the greatest liberties with their chronology , yet the spirit of their dramas is remarkably true to the respective ages in which they are supposed to occur . Calderón glorifies ...
... Goethe's Faust could not be more complete . Both poets take the greatest liberties with their chronology , yet the spirit of their dramas is remarkably true to the respective ages in which they are supposed to occur . Calderón glorifies ...
Page 417
... Goethe calls it - draws life on from stage to stage . Gretchen and Helen had been symbols of this ideal ; Goethe's green old age had felt , to the very last , the charm of woman , the sweetness and the sorrow of loving what he could not ...
... Goethe calls it - draws life on from stage to stage . Gretchen and Helen had been symbols of this ideal ; Goethe's green old age had felt , to the very last , the charm of woman , the sweetness and the sorrow of loving what he could not ...
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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