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 107
... less metaphorically , ( a ) standing erroneous methods ( or at least temptations to error ) that have their roots in human nature generally , ( b ) those that come from intercourse and language , ( c ) those that are due to causes ...
... less metaphorically , ( a ) standing erroneous methods ( or at least temptations to error ) that have their roots in human nature generally , ( b ) those that come from intercourse and language , ( c ) those that are due to causes ...
Page 392
... less influence , but more seeds . If from Goethe we turn to Faust — and it is as the author of Faust only that we shall consider him — the situation is not less ambiguous . In the play , as the as the young Goethe first wrote it ...
... less influence , but more seeds . If from Goethe we turn to Faust — and it is as the author of Faust only that we shall consider him — the situation is not less ambiguous . In the play , as the as the young Goethe first wrote it ...
Page 402
... less natural . One of these less amiable spirits of the atmosphere , especially of its ambient fire , is the Mephistopheles of Goethe . Why he delighted in evil rather than in good he himself explains in a profound and ingenious fashion ...
... less natural . One of these less amiable spirits of the atmosphere , especially of its ambient fire , is the Mephistopheles of Goethe . Why he delighted in evil rather than in good he himself explains in a profound and ingenious fashion ...
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