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 175
... Imagination and Utility . The sharp opposi- tion of play and work is usually associated with false notions of utility and imagination . Activity that is directed upon matters of home and neighbor- hood interest is depreciated as merely ...
... Imagination and Utility . The sharp opposi- tion of play and work is usually associated with false notions of utility and imagination . Activity that is directed upon matters of home and neighbor- hood interest is depreciated as merely ...
Page 212
... Imagination the Remote . The need for both imagination and observation in every mental enterprise illustrates another aspect of the same principle . Teachers who have tried object lessons of the conventional type have usually found that ...
... Imagination the Remote . The need for both imagination and observation in every mental enterprise illustrates another aspect of the same principle . Teachers who have tried object lessons of the conventional type have usually found that ...
Page 373
... imagination that extends the observable ; all the sights and sounds of nature enter into it , and lend it their directness , pungency , and coercive stress . At the same time , natural- ism is an intellectual philosophy ; it divines ...
... imagination that extends the observable ; all the sights and sounds of nature enter into it , and lend it their directness , pungency , and coercive stress . At the same time , natural- ism is an intellectual philosophy ; it divines ...
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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