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 81
... suppose that with the same evil facts M , the man's reaction x is exactly reversed ; suppose that instead of giving way to the evil he braves it , and finds a sterner , more wonderful joy than any passive pleasure can yield in ...
... suppose that with the same evil facts M , the man's reaction x is exactly reversed ; suppose that instead of giving way to the evil he braves it , and finds a sterner , more wonderful joy than any passive pleasure can yield in ...
Page 221
... suppose that every size exists among the atoms , in order that the evidence of phenomena may not contradict us , but we must suppose that there are some variations of size . For if this be the case , we can give a better account of what ...
... suppose that every size exists among the atoms , in order that the evidence of phenomena may not contradict us , but we must suppose that there are some variations of size . For if this be the case , we can give a better account of what ...
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... suppose that the intelli- gence [ or intelligent soul ] is the effect of generation is to suppose that it is not a pure and simple substance but corruptible like the body . It is therefore heresy to say that this soul is transmitted by ...
... suppose that the intelli- gence [ or intelligent soul ] is the effect of generation is to suppose that it is not a pure and simple substance but corruptible like the body . It is therefore heresy to say that this soul is transmitted by ...
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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