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 83
... keeping faith that , those interests once being granted , it is better for him to keep the promise in spite of everything . But the interests themselves are neither right nor wrong , except possibly with reference to some ulterior order ...
... keeping faith that , those interests once being granted , it is better for him to keep the promise in spite of everything . But the interests themselves are neither right nor wrong , except possibly with reference to some ulterior order ...
Page 237
... keep my own will in harmony with nature . ” And so with regard to every other action . For thus , if any impediment arises in bathing , you will be able to say , " It was not only to bathe that I desired , but to keep my will in harmony ...
... keep my own will in harmony with nature . ” And so with regard to every other action . For thus , if any impediment arises in bathing , you will be able to say , " It was not only to bathe that I desired , but to keep my will in harmony ...
Page 549
... keep it cool : no unadvised industry , no unrewarded self- devotion , no loss of the brains in toil . Am I an ox , or a dray ? You are both in extremes , he says . You that will have all solid , and a world of pig lead , deceive ...
... keep it cool : no unadvised industry , no unrewarded self- devotion , no loss of the brains in toil . Am I an ox , or a dray ? You are both in extremes , he says . You that will have all solid , and a world of pig lead , deceive ...
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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