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 475
... Nature provides such a standard . In antiquity both Stoics and Epicureans , the most popular schools of philosophy , had proposed " Follow Nature " as their motto for moral action . In the doctrine of natural law , as found for ex ...
... Nature provides such a standard . In antiquity both Stoics and Epicureans , the most popular schools of philosophy , had proposed " Follow Nature " as their motto for moral action . In the doctrine of natural law , as found for ex ...
Page 483
... nature implies , of a close relation if not absolute identity be- tween what is and what ought to be , certainly derives part of its hold on the mind from the custom of designating what is by the expression “ laws of nature , " while ...
... nature implies , of a close relation if not absolute identity be- tween what is and what ought to be , certainly derives part of its hold on the mind from the custom of designating what is by the expression “ laws of nature , " while ...
Page 484
... nature in this widest acceptation of the term . Man necessarily obeys the laws of nature , or , in other words , the properties of things , but he does not necessarily guide himself by them . Though all conduct is in conformity to laws ...
... nature in this widest acceptation of the term . Man necessarily obeys the laws of nature , or , in other words , the properties of things , but he does not necessarily guide himself by them . Though all conduct is in conformity to laws ...
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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