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 110
... desire , the will , to employ them . This desire is an affair of personal disposition . But on the other hand the disposition alone will not suffice . There must also be understanding of the forms and techniques that are the channels ...
... desire , the will , to employ them . This desire is an affair of personal disposition . But on the other hand the disposition alone will not suffice . There must also be understanding of the forms and techniques that are the channels ...
Page 237
... desire ; for if you desire any of the things not within our own power , you must necessarily be disappointed ; and you are not yet secure of those which are within our power , and so are legitimate objects of desire . Where it is ...
... desire ; for if you desire any of the things not within our own power , you must necessarily be disappointed ; and you are not yet secure of those which are within our power , and so are legitimate objects of desire . Where it is ...
Page 561
... desire for the whole ; a desire raging , infinite ; a hunger , as of space to be filled with planets ; a cry of famine , as of devils for souls . Then for the satisfaction - to each man is administered a single drop , a bead of dew of ...
... desire for the whole ; a desire raging , infinite ; a hunger , as of space to be filled with planets ; a cry of famine , as of devils for souls . Then for the satisfaction - to each man is administered a single drop , a bead of dew of ...
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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