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 199
... carried on without a sense of a problem that it helps define and solve . The evil of this isolation is seen through the entire educational system , from the kindergarten through the elementary and high schools to the college . Almost ...
... carried on without a sense of a problem that it helps define and solve . The evil of this isolation is seen through the entire educational system , from the kindergarten through the elementary and high schools to the college . Almost ...
Page 202
... carried on ; the interest in what is done passes over into an interest in the organs by which it is done . But when the beginning is made with the morphological , the anatomical , the noting of peculiarities of form , size , color , and ...
... carried on ; the interest in what is done passes over into an interest in the organs by which it is done . But when the beginning is made with the morphological , the anatomical , the noting of peculiarities of form , size , color , and ...
Page 206
... carried far enough to detect and guard against the source of some false perception or reasoning , and to get a ... carry over and be an effective resource in further topics , conscious summarizing and organization are imperative . In the ...
... carried far enough to detect and guard against the source of some false perception or reasoning , and to get a ... carry over and be an effective resource in further topics , conscious summarizing and organization are imperative . In the ...
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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