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 255
... Plato and Plato- nism . In his later life Pater returned to the religious fervor of his youth , and it is said that if he had lived he might have taken orders . He died , however , on July 30 , 1894 , at the age of fifty - four . Two ...
... Plato and Plato- nism . In his later life Pater returned to the religious fervor of his youth , and it is said that if he had lived he might have taken orders . He died , however , on July 30 , 1894 , at the age of fifty - four . Two ...
Page 273
... Plato in dialectic , he flew into a rage and in his exasperation threw Philoxenus into the stone quarries and sent Plato to Aegina to be sold into slavery . Not so Alexander ; when the champion Crison seemed to slacken speed on purpose ...
... Plato in dialectic , he flew into a rage and in his exasperation threw Philoxenus into the stone quarries and sent Plato to Aegina to be sold into slavery . Not so Alexander ; when the champion Crison seemed to slacken speed on purpose ...
Page 509
... Plato had no doctrines . His thought was rich , complex and elusive , and above all irreducible to a system , to a set of easily comprehended propositions and theses . Plato was Emer- son's master , and Emerson had no doctrines either ...
... Plato had no doctrines . His thought was rich , complex and elusive , and above all irreducible to a system , to a set of easily comprehended propositions and theses . Plato was Emer- son's master , and Emerson had no doctrines either ...
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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