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 174
... interest in activity for its own sake and interest in the external result of that activity , but between an interest in an activity just as it flows on from moment to moment and an interest in an activity as tending to a culmination ...
... interest in activity for its own sake and interest in the external result of that activity , but between an interest in an activity just as it flows on from moment to moment and an interest in an activity as tending to a culmination ...
Page 183
... interest in geometric and mechanical problems . The interest in cooking should grow into an interest in chemical experimentation and the physiology and hygiene of bodily growth . The original casual making of pictures should pass to an ...
... interest in geometric and mechanical problems . The interest in cooking should grow into an interest in chemical experimentation and the physiology and hygiene of bodily growth . The original casual making of pictures should pass to an ...
Page 201
... interest in its successor if observations of change are to be intellectually ordered and thus are to aid in forming a logical attitude . Observation of Structure and Function . Living beings , plants and ani- mals , fulfill the twofold ...
... interest in its successor if observations of change are to be intellectually ordered and thus are to aid in forming a logical attitude . Observation of Structure and Function . Living beings , plants and ani- mals , fulfill the twofold ...
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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