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For all such rules a further inquiry is necessary , since they are sometimes established by an authority other than ... But the questioning of this rule , and investigation into it , led men to see that true beneficence is that which ...
For all such rules a further inquiry is necessary , since they are sometimes established by an authority other than ... But the questioning of this rule , and investigation into it , led men to see that true beneficence is that which ...
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I , therefore , for one , cannot see my way to accepting the agnostic rules for truth seeking , or willfully agree to keep my willing nature out of the game . I cannot do so for this plain reason , that a rule of thinking which would ...
I , therefore , for one , cannot see my way to accepting the agnostic rules for truth seeking , or willfully agree to keep my willing nature out of the game . I cannot do so for this plain reason , that a rule of thinking which would ...
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But the employment of the word nature as a term of ethics seems to disclose a third meaning , in which nature does not stand for what is but for what ought to be , or for the rule or standard of what ought to be .
But the employment of the word nature as a term of ethics seems to disclose a third meaning , in which nature does not stand for what is but for what ought to be , or for the rule or standard of what ought to be .
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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
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| Title | Gateway to the Great Books: Philosophical essays Volume 10 of Gateway to the Great Books, Robert Maynard Hutchins |
| Editors | Robert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler |
| Publisher | Encyclopędia Britannica, 1963 |
| Length | 644 pages |
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