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 292
... affection is ever shared by two persons only , or at most by a few . Now friendship may be thus defined : a complete accord on all subjects human and divine , joined with mutual good will and affection . And with the exception of wisdom ...
... affection is ever shared by two persons only , or at most by a few . Now friendship may be thus defined : a complete accord on all subjects human and divine , joined with mutual good will and affection . And with the exception of wisdom ...
Page 295
... affection . But of course it is more evident in the case of man : first , in the natural affection between children and their parents , an affection which only shocking wickedness can sunder ; and next , when the passion of love has ...
... affection . But of course it is more evident in the case of man : first , in the natural affection between children and their parents , an affection which only shocking wickedness can sunder ; and next , when the passion of love has ...
Page 296
... affection . Closer intimacy added to the warmth of our feelings . But though many great material advantages did ensue , they were not the source from which our affection proceeded . For as we are not beneficent and liberal with any view ...
... affection . Closer intimacy added to the warmth of our feelings . But though many great material advantages did ensue , they were not the source from which our affection proceeded . For as we are not beneficent and liberal with any view ...
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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