Gateway to the Great Books: Philosophical essaysRobert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler Encyclopędia 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 31
... conception of beneficence , which we can compare with any proposed course of conduct and ask , " Is this beneficent or not ? " By the continual asking and answering of such questions the conception grows in breadth and distinctness ...
... conception of beneficence , which we can compare with any proposed course of conduct and ask , " Is this beneficent or not ? " By the continual asking and answering of such questions the conception grows in breadth and distinctness ...
Page 153
... conception , instead of using , even with additions , traits of this kind , determines meaning on a different basis . The present definition of metal is about like this : Metal means any chemical element that enters into combination ...
... conception , instead of using , even with additions , traits of this kind , determines meaning on a different basis . The present definition of metal is about like this : Metal means any chemical element that enters into combination ...
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... conception of things is a great work of imagination - greater , I think , than any dramatic or moral my- thology : it is a conception fit to inspire great poetry , and in the end , perhaps , it will prove the only conception able to ...
... conception of things is a great work of imagination - greater , I think , than any dramatic or moral my- thology : it is a conception fit to inspire great poetry , and in the end , perhaps , it will prove the only conception able to ...
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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