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His 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 ...
His 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 is the readiness to act in a cause the prosperous issue of which is not certified to us in advance . It is in fact the same moral quality which we call courage in practical affairs ; and there will be a very widespread tendency in ...
faith is the readiness to act in a cause the prosperous issue of which is not certified to us in advance . It is in fact the same moral quality which we call courage in practical affairs ; and there will be a very widespread tendency in ...
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The truly wise disciple of this school will then admit faith as an ultimate ethical factor . Any philosophy which makes such questions as , What is the ideal type of humanity ? What shall be reckoned virtues ?
The truly wise disciple of this school will then admit faith as an ultimate ethical factor . Any philosophy which makes such questions as , What is the ideal type of humanity ? What shall be reckoned virtues ?
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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
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| Title | Gateway to the Great Books: Philosophical essays Volume 10 of Gateway to the Great Books, Robert Maynard Hutchins |
| Editors | Robert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler |
| Publisher | Encyclopędia Britannica, 1963 |
| Length | 644 pages |
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