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Page 99
The turning of the head , the lifting of the eyes , the scanning of the heavens are activities adapted to bring to recognition facts that will an- swer the question presented by the sudden coolness . The facts as they first presented ...
The turning of the head , the lifting of the eyes , the scanning of the heavens are activities adapted to bring to recognition facts that will an- swer the question presented by the sudden coolness . The facts as they first presented ...
Page 142
We may sum up by stating that things gain meaning when they are used as means to bring about consequences ( or as means to prevent the occur- rence of undesired consequences ) , or as standing for consequences for which we have to ...
We may sum up by stating that things gain meaning when they are used as means to bring about consequences ( or as means to prevent the occur- rence of undesired consequences ) , or as standing for consequences for which we have to ...
Page 479
The corn which men raise for food grows and produces its grain by the same laws of vegetation by which the wild rose and the mountain strawberry bring forth their flowers and fruit . A house stands and holds together by the natural ...
The corn which men raise for food grows and produces its grain by the same laws of vegetation by which the wild rose and the mountain strawberry bring forth their flowers and fruit . A house stands and holds together by the natural ...
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action activity affection appear become beginning believe better body Books bring called cause character Church conception consider course death definite desire direct doubt evidence evil existence experience expression fact faith Faust fear feeling follow force friendship give given hand happen hope human idea imagination important individual intellectual intelligence interest keep kind knowledge least less light live logical look material matter meaning method mind moral nature never object observation old age once particular pass person philosopher play pleasure poet possible practical present problem qualities question reason reflection relation remains result rule seems sense soul speak stand suggested suppose things Thomas thought tion true truth turn understanding universe virtue whole wish
Bibliographic information
| Title | Gateway to the Great Books: Philosophical essays Volume 10 of Gateway to the Great Books, Robert Maynard Hutchins |
| Editors | Robert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler |
| Publisher | Encyclopędia Britannica, 1963 |
| Length | 644 pages |
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