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 17
... evidence that could be got , it appeared that the accused were innocent . Not only had they been accused on insufficient evidence , but the evidence of their innocence was such as the agitators might easily have obtained , if they had ...
... evidence that could be got , it appeared that the accused were innocent . Not only had they been accused on insufficient evidence , but the evidence of their innocence was such as the agitators might easily have obtained , if they had ...
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... evidence . Moreover there are many cases in which it is our duty to act upon probabilities , although the evidence is not such as to justify present belief ; because it is precisely by such action , and by observation of its fruits ...
... evidence . Moreover there are many cases in which it is our duty to act upon probabilities , although the evidence is not such as to justify present belief ; because it is precisely by such action , and by observation of its fruits ...
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... evidence . Even when they happen to be correct , their correctness is a matter of accident as far as the person who ... evidence ; it rested upon what men could see easily within the limits of their vision . But this evidence was ...
... evidence . Even when they happen to be correct , their correctness is a matter of accident as far as the person who ... evidence ; it rested upon what men could see easily within the limits of their vision . But this evidence was ...
Contents
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