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 12
... beginning was to decrease fear and increase opportunity ; its outward effect was to rob the altar of its sacrifice and the priest of his mysteries . Little wonder that from the beginning the disinterestedness of the accred- ited ...
... beginning was to decrease fear and increase opportunity ; its outward effect was to rob the altar of its sacrifice and the priest of his mysteries . Little wonder that from the beginning the disinterestedness of the accred- ited ...
Page 394
... beginning people recognized in Doctor Faustus a braver brother , a somewhat enviable reprobate who had dared to relish the good things of this life above the sad joys vaguely promised for the other . All that the Renaissance valued was ...
... beginning people recognized in Doctor Faustus a braver brother , a somewhat enviable reprobate who had dared to relish the good things of this life above the sad joys vaguely promised for the other . All that the Renaissance valued was ...
Page 414
... beginning - nor does it lie in any revolution in his fortunes , as if in heaven he were to be differently em- ployed than on earth . He is going to teach life to the souls of young boys who have died too soon to have had in their own ...
... beginning - nor does it lie in any revolution in his fortunes , as if in heaven he were to be differently em- ployed than on earth . He is going to teach life to the souls of young boys who have died too soon to have had in their own ...
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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