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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... action following upon it . The ship - owner might say , " I am perfectly certain that my ship is sound , but still I feel it my duty to have her examined , before trusting the lives of so many people to her . " And it might be said to ...
... action following upon it . The ship - owner might say , " I am perfectly certain that my ship is sound , but still I feel it my duty to have her examined , before trusting the lives of so many people to her . " And it might be said to ...
Page 237
... action , remind yourself of what nature the action is . If you are going to bathe , represent to yourself the incidents usual in the bath — some persons pouring out , others pushing in , others scolding , others pilfering . And thus you ...
... action , remind yourself of what nature the action is . If you are going to bathe , represent to yourself the incidents usual in the bath — some persons pouring out , others pushing in , others scolding , others pilfering . And thus you ...
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... action . Yet he was convinced that “ no great improvements in the lot of man- kind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought . " He lamented the lack of an accepted standard ...
... action . Yet he was convinced that “ no great improvements in the lot of man- kind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought . " He lamented the lack of an accepted standard ...
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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