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 111
... attitude or dis- position is generally recognized in practical and moral affairs . But it is equally important in intellectual development . There is no greater enemy of effective thinking than divided interest . This division ...
... attitude or dis- position is generally recognized in practical and moral affairs . But it is equally important in intellectual development . There is no greater enemy of effective thinking than divided interest . This division ...
Page 173
... attitude of mind ; the latter is a passing outward manifestation of this attitude . When things are treated simply as vehicles of suggestion , what is suggested overrides the thing . Hence the playful attitude is one of free- dom ...
... attitude of mind ; the latter is a passing outward manifestation of this attitude . When things are treated simply as vehicles of suggestion , what is suggested overrides the thing . Hence the playful attitude is one of free- dom ...
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... attitude typical of the artist , an attitude that may be displayed in all activities , even though they are not conventionally designated " arts . " The Teacher as an Artist . That teaching is an art and the true teacher an artist is a ...
... attitude typical of the artist , an attitude that may be displayed in all activities , even though they are not conventionally designated " arts . " The Teacher as an Artist . That teaching is an art and the true teacher an artist is a ...
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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