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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Page 52
... never make you believe in one . Mephistophelian skepticism , indeed , will satisfy the head's play instincts much better than any rigorous idealism can . Some men ( even at the student age ) are so naturally coolhearted that the ...
... never make you believe in one . Mephistophelian skepticism , indeed , will satisfy the head's play instincts much better than any rigorous idealism can . Some men ( even at the student age ) are so naturally coolhearted that the ...
Page 424
... never shown any admiration whatever for the philosophy of the schools , the authority of Leo XIII is final , at least on one point and the only one that concerns us . St. Thomas is still alive and overshadows as many schools as he ever ...
... never shown any admiration whatever for the philosophy of the schools , the authority of Leo XIII is final , at least on one point and the only one that concerns us . St. Thomas is still alive and overshadows as many schools as he ever ...
Page 554
... never a man with such abundance of thoughts ; he is never dull , never insincere , and has the genius to make the reader care for all that he cares for . The sincerity and marrow of the man reaches to his sentences . I know not anywhere ...
... never a man with such abundance of thoughts ; he is never dull , never insincere , and has the genius to make the reader care for all that he cares for . The sincerity and marrow of the man reaches to his sentences . I know not anywhere ...
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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