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 166
... called " infor- mation , " while ideas become so remote from objects and acts of experience that they are empty . Instead of being means for better understanding , they become themselves incomprehensible mysteries , which for some ...
... called " infor- mation , " while ideas become so remote from objects and acts of experience that they are empty . Instead of being means for better understanding , they become themselves incomprehensible mysteries , which for some ...
Page 362
... called Three Philosophical Poets ( 1910 ) . ( The third poet was Dante.3 ) The title is important , for it was because his three poets were philosophical that Santayana studied them . By philosophical he appears to mean that they were ...
... called Three Philosophical Poets ( 1910 ) . ( The third poet was Dante.3 ) The title is important , for it was because his three poets were philosophical that Santayana studied them . By philosophical he appears to mean that they were ...
Page 444
... called mind , and the mark of mind was reflective absorption or choice . The apparent freedom was an illusion arising from the extreme delicacy of the machine , but the motive power was in fact the same - that of God . This exclusion of ...
... called mind , and the mark of mind was reflective absorption or choice . The apparent freedom was an illusion arising from the extreme delicacy of the machine , but the motive power was in fact the same - that of God . This exclusion of ...
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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