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 184
... individual differences that exist ; they should not try to force one pattern and model upon all . In many ( probably ... individual not to hamper and cripple whatever powers are naturally strong in him . The narrowness of individuals of ...
... individual differences that exist ; they should not try to force one pattern and model upon all . In many ( probably ... individual not to hamper and cripple whatever powers are naturally strong in him . The narrowness of individuals of ...
Page 194
... individuals and traits . The ordinary use of such terms as causation , law , society , individual , capital illustrates this tendency . In the history of language we find both aspects of the growth of vocabu- lary illustrated by changes ...
... individuals and traits . The ordinary use of such terms as causation , law , society , individual , capital illustrates this tendency . In the history of language we find both aspects of the growth of vocabu- lary illustrated by changes ...
Page 259
... individual in his isolation , each mind keeping as a solitary prisoner its own dream of a world . Analysis goes a step farther still , and assures us that those impressions of the individual mind to which , for each one of us ...
... individual in his isolation , each mind keeping as a solitary prisoner its own dream of a world . Analysis goes a step farther still , and assures us that those impressions of the individual mind to which , for each one of us ...
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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