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 362
... Poets ( 1910 ) . ( The third poet was Dante.3 ) The title is important , for it was because his three poets were philosophical that Santayana studied them . By philosophical he appears to mean that they were concerned to find nothing ...
... Poets ( 1910 ) . ( The third poet was Dante.3 ) The title is important , for it was because his three poets were philosophical that Santayana studied them . By philosophical he appears to mean that they were concerned to find nothing ...
Page 365
... poet himself . If they did , we should not be able to trace them , since we know nothing , or next to nothing , about Lucretius the man . In a chronicon , compiled by St. Jerome largely out of Suetonius , in which miscellaneous events ...
... poet himself . If they did , we should not be able to trace them , since we know nothing , or next to nothing , about Lucretius the man . In a chronicon , compiled by St. Jerome largely out of Suetonius , in which miscellaneous events ...
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... poet himself . The greatest thing about this genius is its power of losing itself in its object , its impersonality . We seem to be reading not the poetry of a poet about things , but the poetry of things themselves . That things have ...
... poet himself . The greatest thing about this genius is its power of losing itself in its object , its impersonality . We seem to be reading not the poetry of a poet about things , but the poetry of things themselves . That things have ...
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WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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