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 122
... practical deliberations and in scientific investigations . In the former the practical commitment involved in overt action is much more serious than in the latter . An astronomer or a chemist performs overt actions , but they are for ...
... practical deliberations and in scientific investigations . In the former the practical commitment involved in overt action is much more serious than in the latter . An astronomer or a chemist performs overt actions , but they are for ...
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 ...
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action activity affection appear become beginning believe better body Books bring called cause character Church conception consider course death definite desire direct doubt evidence evil existence experience expression fact faith Faust fear feeling follow force friendship give given hand happen hope human idea imagination important individual intellectual intelligence interest keep kind knowledge least less light live logical look material matter meaning method mind moral nature never object observation old age once particular pass person philosopher play pleasure poet possible practical present problem qualities question reason reflection relation remains result rule seems sense soul speak stand suggested suppose things Thomas thought tion true truth turn understanding universe virtue whole wish