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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... character , the English resolution to make reason and the will of God prevail , Arnold took for granted ; no man ever set a higher price on character - so far as character by itself will go . But he spent his life trying to sow a little ...
... character , the English resolution to make reason and the will of God prevail , Arnold took for granted ; no man ever set a higher price on character - so far as character by itself will go . But he spent his life trying to sow a little ...
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... character of his Prophet was so noble and majestic that it commands the reverence even of those who do not believe in his mission . So admirable was his moral teaching , so wisely put together the great social machine which he created ...
... character of his Prophet was so noble and majestic that it commands the reverence even of those who do not believe in his mission . So admirable was his moral teaching , so wisely put together the great social machine which he created ...
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... character than a studied concealment of sentiment . Sec- ondly , he will not only reject all accusations brought ... character , was by no means his equal . He used also to wish that all his friends should be the better for his support ...
... character than a studied concealment of sentiment . Sec- ondly , he will not only reject all accusations brought ... character , was by no means his equal . He used also to wish that all his friends should be the better for his support ...
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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