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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... sense of power attached to a sense of knowledge that makes men desirous of believing , and afraid of doubting . This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief , and has ...
... sense of power attached to a sense of knowledge that makes men desirous of believing , and afraid of doubting . This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief , and has ...
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... sense of words : some words originally wide in their application are narrowed to denote shades of meaning ; others originally specific are widened to express relationships . The term vernacular , now meaning mother speech , has been ...
... sense of words : some words originally wide in their application are narrowed to denote shades of meaning ; others originally specific are widened to express relationships . The term vernacular , now meaning mother speech , has been ...
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... sense of touch as guides to action . Without a constant and alert exercise of the senses , not even plays and games can go on ; in any form of work , materials , obstacles , appliances , failures , and successes must be intently watched .
... sense of touch as guides to action . Without a constant and alert exercise of the senses , not even plays and games can go on ; in any form of work , materials , obstacles , appliances , failures , and successes must be intently watched .
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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