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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... Plutarch , translated by Moses Hadas , copyright 1957 by Moses Hadas , published by arrangement with The New American Library of World Literature , Inc. , New York . " Lucretius " and " Goethe's Faust " reprinted by permission of the ...
... Plutarch , translated by Moses Hadas , copyright 1957 by Moses Hadas , published by arrangement with The New American Library of World Literature , Inc. , New York . " Lucretius " and " Goethe's Faust " reprinted by permission of the ...
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Robert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler. Plutarch c . 46-120 The essay that follows is often titled On Tranquillity . But the tranquil person is , perhaps , a more passive and resigned one than the ideal of Plutarch . In any event ...
Robert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler. Plutarch c . 46-120 The essay that follows is often titled On Tranquillity . But the tranquil person is , perhaps , a more passive and resigned one than the ideal of Plutarch . In any event ...
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... Plutarch quotes Menander as reminding us , " This shall not happen to me . It is nonsense to insist that no harm can befall the good man . Of course it can . But the good man can remain content even in the face of disaster . Even death ...
... Plutarch quotes Menander as reminding us , " This shall not happen to me . It is nonsense to insist that no harm can befall the good man . Of course it can . But the good man can remain content even in the face of disaster . Even death ...
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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