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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 58
Page 65
... pass all the argument of the earth . " At such moments of energetic living we feel as if there were something diseased and con- temptible , yea vile , in theoretic grubbing and brooding . In the eye of healthy sense the philosopher is ...
... pass all the argument of the earth . " At such moments of energetic living we feel as if there were something diseased and con- temptible , yea vile , in theoretic grubbing and brooding . In the eye of healthy sense the philosopher is ...
Page 66
... pass easily back to its antecedents ; to know it is easily to foresee its consequents . Custom , which lets us do both , is thus the source of whatever rationality the thing may gain in our thought . In the broad sense in which ...
... pass easily back to its antecedents ; to know it is easily to foresee its consequents . Custom , which lets us do both , is thus the source of whatever rationality the thing may gain in our thought . In the broad sense in which ...
Page 367
... pass away , and that the place thereof knows them no more . Yet , when they vanish , nothingness does not succeed ; other things arise in their stead . Nature remains always young and whole in spite of death at work everywhere ; and ...
... pass away , and that the place thereof knows them no more . Yet , when they vanish , nothingness does not succeed ; other things arise in their stead . Nature remains always young and whole in spite of death at work everywhere ; and ...
Contents
JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
Copyright | |
20 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
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