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 253
... remains is to make use of his instructions . This alone is the valuable thing . But if I admire merely the interpretation , what do I become more than a grammarian , instead of a philosopher , except , indeed , that instead of Homer I ...
... remains is to make use of his instructions . This alone is the valuable thing . But if I admire merely the interpretation , what do I become more than a grammarian , instead of a philosopher , except , indeed , that instead of Homer I ...
Page 337
... remains of the journey ? There remains the fourth reason , which more than anything else appears to torment men of my age and keep them in a flutter — THE NEARNESS OF DEATH , which , it must be allowed , cannot be far from an old man ...
... remains of the journey ? There remains the fourth reason , which more than anything else appears to torment men of my age and keep them in a flutter — THE NEARNESS OF DEATH , which , it must be allowed , cannot be far from an old man ...
Page 498
... remains a standing prejudice , capable of being stirred up into hostility to reason in any case in which the dictate of the rational faculty has not acquired the authority of prescription . I shall not here enter into the difficult ...
... remains a standing prejudice , capable of being stirred up into hostility to reason in any case in which the dictate of the rational faculty has not acquired the authority of prescription . I shall not here enter into the difficult ...
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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