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 33
... experience when regarded as a guide to our actions . A burnt child dreads the fire , because it believes that the fire will burn it to - day just as it did yesterday ; but this belief goes beyond experience , and assumes that the ...
... experience when regarded as a guide to our actions . A burnt child dreads the fire , because it believes that the fire will burn it to - day just as it did yesterday ; but this belief goes beyond experience , and assumes that the ...
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... experience is that manuscripts exist which are said to be and which call themselves manuscripts of the history of Thucydides ; that in other manuscripts , stated to be by later historians , he is described as living during the time of ...
... experience is that manuscripts exist which are said to be and which call themselves manuscripts of the history of Thucydides ; that in other manuscripts , stated to be by later historians , he is described as living during the time of ...
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... experience . What has been said about the evil of observations that begin and end in themselves may be transferred without change to communicated learning . Instruction in subject matter that does not fit into an interest already ...
... experience . What has been said about the evil of observations that begin and end in themselves may be transferred without change to communicated learning . Instruction in subject matter that does not fit into an interest already ...
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action activity affection appear become beginning believe better body Books bring called cause character Church conception consider course death definite desire direct doubt evidence evil existence experience expression fact faith Faust fear feeling follow force friendship give given hand happen hope human idea imagination important individual intellectual intelligence interest keep kind knowledge least less light live logical look material matter meaning method mind moral nature never object observation old age once particular pass person philosopher play pleasure poet possible practical present problem qualities question reason reflection relation remains result rule seems sense soul speak stand suggested suppose things Thomas thought tion true truth turn understanding universe virtue whole wish