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 71
... practical interests . The theory of evolution is beginning to do very good service by its reduction of all mentality to the type of reflex action . Cognition , in this view , is but a fleeting moment , a cross section at a certain point ...
... practical interests . The theory of evolution is beginning to do very good service by its reduction of all mentality to the type of reflex action . Cognition , in this view , is but a fleeting moment , a cross section at a certain point ...
Page 181
... practical exigencies of life almost , if not quite , coercive . Their main business is the proper conduct of their affairs . What- ever is of significance only as affording scope for thinking is pallid and remote - almost artificial ...
... practical exigencies of life almost , if not quite , coercive . Their main business is the proper conduct of their affairs . What- ever is of significance only as affording scope for thinking is pallid and remote - almost artificial ...
Page 184
... practical . A person who has at command both types of thinking is of a higher order than he who possesses only one . Methods that , in developing abstract intellectual abilities , weaken habits of practical or concrete thinking fall as ...
... practical . A person who has at command both types of thinking is of a higher order than he who possesses only one . Methods that , in developing abstract intellectual abilities , weaken habits of practical or concrete thinking fall as ...
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
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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