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In this separation , " facts " become a dead weight of undigested , mechanical , largely verbal , so - called “ infor- mation , " while ideas become so remote from objects and acts of experience that they are empty .
In this separation , " facts " become a dead weight of undigested , mechanical , largely verbal , so - called “ infor- mation , " while ideas become so remote from objects and acts of experience that they are empty .
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The two essays which follow , on Lucretius ' and on Goethe's 2 Faust , were first published in a volume called Three Philosophical Poets ( 1910 ) . ( The third poet was Dante . ) The title is important , for it was because his three ...
The two essays which follow , on Lucretius ' and on Goethe's 2 Faust , were first published in a volume called Three Philosophical Poets ( 1910 ) . ( The third poet was Dante . ) The title is important , for it was because his three ...
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The only difference between man and a vegetable was the reflex action of the complicated mirror which was called mind , and the mark of mind was reflective absorption or choice . The apparent freedom was an illusion arising from the ...
The only difference between man and a vegetable was the reflex action of the complicated mirror which was called mind , and the mark of mind was reflective absorption or choice . The apparent freedom was an illusion arising from the ...
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| 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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