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 235
... philosopher as presented by Epictetus has many of the characteristics of the saint : he is ascetic , disciplined in will , resigned to whatever may befall him , fond of meditating on death , yet com- passionate of others whom he ...
... philosopher as presented by Epictetus has many of the characteristics of the saint : he is ascetic , disciplined in will , resigned to whatever may befall him , fond of meditating on death , yet com- passionate of others whom he ...
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... philosopher and heard a man speaking like Euphrates - though , indeed , who can speak like him ? -have a mind to be philosophers , too . Consider first , man , what the matter is , and what your own nature is able to bear . If you would ...
... philosopher and heard a man speaking like Euphrates - though , indeed , who can speak like him ? -have a mind to be philosophers , too . Consider first , man , what the matter is , and what your own nature is able to bear . If you would ...
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... philosopher ? And is Faust a philosophical poem ? If we say so , it must be by giving a certain latitude to our terms . Goethe was the wisest of mankind ; too wise , perhaps , to be a philosopher in the technical sense , or to try to ...
... philosopher ? And is Faust a philosophical poem ? If we say so , it must be by giving a certain latitude to our terms . Goethe was the wisest of mankind ; too wise , perhaps , to be a philosopher in the technical sense , or to try to ...
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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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