Gateway to the Great Books: Philosophical essaysRobert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler Encyclopędia Britannica, 1963 - 644 pages Complements Great Books of the Western World; includes only short works and excerpts from longer works. |
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... knowledge . The man who has right opinion knows what is true but cannot give any reasons for it . The man who has knowledge not only knows what is true but can say why it is true . For Socrates it makes no difference whether actions are ...
... knowledge . The man who has right opinion knows what is true but cannot give any reasons for it . The man who has knowledge not only knows what is true but can say why it is true . For Socrates it makes no difference whether actions are ...
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... knowledge of it ; but it does not prove his super- human knowledge of theology . And if we admit for the sake of argument ( for it seems that we cannot do more ) that the progress made by Moslem nations in certain cases was really due ...
... knowledge of it ; but it does not prove his super- human knowledge of theology . And if we admit for the sake of argument ( for it seems that we cannot do more ) that the progress made by Moslem nations in certain cases was really due ...
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... knowledge all had seemed obvious and natural . A scientist brought into a new district will find many things that he ... knowledge . Intellectual Progress a Rhythm . Our progress in genuine knowledge always consists in part in the ...
... knowledge all had seemed obvious and natural . A scientist brought into a new district will find many things that he ... knowledge . Intellectual Progress a Rhythm . Our progress in genuine knowledge always consists in part in the ...
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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