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 28
... results from the errors which may have crept into them . It is in this way that the result becomes common property , a right object of belief , which is a social affair and matter of public business . Thus it is to be observed that his ...
... results from the errors which may have crept into them . It is in this way that the result becomes common property , a right object of belief , which is a social affair and matter of public business . Thus it is to be observed that his ...
Page 32
... result counts for nothing by the side of these two . For an example let us go to the telegraph , where theory and practice , grown each to years of discretion , are marvellously wedded for the fruitful service of men . Ohm found that ...
... result counts for nothing by the side of these two . For an example let us go to the telegraph , where theory and practice , grown each to years of discretion , are marvellously wedded for the fruitful service of men . Ohm found that ...
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... result is to see to it that the children look ahead and forecast , to some extent , the ends of their activity , the effects it is likely to produce . Work Should Not Be Drudgery . However , exclusive interest in a result alters work to ...
... result is to see to it that the children look ahead and forecast , to some extent , the ends of their activity , the effects it is likely to produce . Work Should Not Be Drudgery . However , exclusive interest in a result alters work to ...
Contents
JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
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