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 73
... speak unto thee ! " is the only revelation of truth to which the solving epochs have helped the disciple . But that has been enough to satisfy the greater part of his rational need . In se and per se the universal essence has hardly ...
... speak unto thee ! " is the only revelation of truth to which the solving epochs have helped the disciple . But that has been enough to satisfy the greater part of his rational need . In se and per se the universal essence has hardly ...
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... speak on old age than one who had been an old man longer than any one else , and had been exceptionally vigorous in ... speaking , not I. Finally , as I sent the former essay to you as a gift from one old man to another , so I have ...
... speak on old age than one who had been an old man longer than any one else , and had been exceptionally vigorous in ... speaking , not I. Finally , as I sent the former essay to you as a gift from one old man to another , so I have ...
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... speak , in the campaigns of desire and ambition , rivalry and hatred , and all the passions , should live in its own thoughts , and , as the expression goes , should dwell apart ! Indeed , if it has in store any of what I may call the ...
... speak , in the campaigns of desire and ambition , rivalry and hatred , and all the passions , should live in its own thoughts , and , as the expression goes , should dwell apart ! Indeed , if it has in store any of what I may call the ...
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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