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 172
... PLAY , WORK , AND ALLIED FORMS OF ACTIVITY The Significance of Play and of Playfulness . When things become signs , when they gain a representative capacity as standing for other things , play is transformed from mere physical ...
... PLAY , WORK , AND ALLIED FORMS OF ACTIVITY The Significance of Play and of Playfulness . When things become signs , when they gain a representative capacity as standing for other things , play is transformed from mere physical ...
Page 173
... play is the chief , almost the only , mode of education for the child in the years of later infancy . Playfulness is a more important consideration than play . The former is an attitude of mind ; the latter is a passing outward ...
... play is the chief , almost the only , mode of education for the child in the years of later infancy . Playfulness is a more important consideration than play . The former is an attitude of mind ; the latter is a passing outward ...
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... Play Attitude . The intellectual harm accruing from divorce of work and play , product and process , is evidenced in the proverb , “ All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy . " That the obverse is true is perhaps sufficiently ...
... Play Attitude . The intellectual harm accruing from divorce of work and play , product and process , is evidenced in the proverb , “ All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy . " That the obverse is true is perhaps sufficiently ...
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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