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It is Erskine's view that the English have traditionally assumed that intelligence and morality are incompatible. A man is clever or he is virtuous, but he cannot be both. And since a choice must be made between the two, ...
It is Erskine's view that the English have traditionally assumed that intelligence and morality are incompatible. A man is clever or he is virtuous, but he cannot be both. And since a choice must be made between the two, ...
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We make a moral issue of an economic or social question , because it seems ignoble to admit it is simply a question for intelligence . Like the medicine man , we use oratory and invoke our hereditary divini- ties , when the patient ...
We make a moral issue of an economic or social question , because it seems ignoble to admit it is simply a question for intelligence . Like the medicine man , we use oratory and invoke our hereditary divini- ties , when the patient ...
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The faith that needs the fewest altars , the hypothesis that leaves least unexplained , survives ; and the intelligence that changes most fears into opportunity is most divine . We believe this beneficent operation of intelligence was ...
The faith that needs the fewest altars , the hypothesis that leaves least unexplained , survives ; and the intelligence that changes most fears into opportunity is most divine . We believe this beneficent operation of intelligence was ...
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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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