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 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 ...
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