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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... human nature and his knowledge of it ; but it does not prove his super- human knowledge of theology . And if we admit for the sake of argument ( for it seems that we cannot do more ) that the progress made by Moslem nations in certain ...
... human nature and his knowledge of it ; but it does not prove his super- human knowledge of theology . And if we admit for the sake of argument ( for it seems that we cannot do more ) that the progress made by Moslem nations in certain ...
Page 475
... human action and the consequent want of certitude in moral and political matters . He knew but rejected the long tradition that Nature provides such a standard . In antiquity both Stoics and Epicureans , the most popular schools of ...
... human action and the consequent want of certitude in moral and political matters . He knew but rejected the long tradition that Nature provides such a standard . In antiquity both Stoics and Epicureans , the most popular schools of ...
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... human character which is not decidedly repugnant to the untutored feelings of human nature . If there be a virtue which more than any other we expect to find , and really do find , in an uncivilized state , it is the virtue of courage ...
... human character which is not decidedly repugnant to the untutored feelings of human nature . If there be a virtue which more than any other we expect to find , and really do find , in an uncivilized state , it is the virtue of courage ...
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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