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 53
... faith acts on the powers above him as a claim , and creates its own verification . A social organism of any sort whatever , large or small , is what it is be- cause each member proceeds to his own duty with a trust that the other ...
... faith acts on the powers above him as a claim , and creates its own verification . A social organism of any sort whatever , large or small , is what it is be- cause each member proceeds to his own duty with a trust that the other ...
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... faith as an ingredient in our mental attitude is strongly insisted on by the scientific philosophers of the present day ; but by a singularly arbitrary caprice they say that it is only legitimate when used in the interests of one ...
... faith as an ingredient in our mental attitude is strongly insisted on by the scientific philosophers of the present day ; but by a singularly arbitrary caprice they say that it is only legitimate when used in the interests of one ...
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... faith that we shall not fail ; and that faith in turn on the faith that we are right , which faith thus verifies itself . Take as an example the question of optimism or pessimism , which makes so much noise just now in Germany . Every ...
... faith that we shall not fail ; and that faith in turn on the faith that we are right , which faith thus verifies itself . Take as an example the question of optimism or pessimism , which makes so much noise just now in Germany . Every ...
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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