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 103
... things , the collection of marks stands for some idea or object . We are so used to the fact that things have meaning for us , that they are not mere excitations of sense organs , that we fail to recognize that they are charged with the ...
... things , the collection of marks stands for some idea or object . We are so used to the fact that things have meaning for us , that they are not mere excitations of sense organs , that we fail to recognize that they are charged with the ...
Page 173
... things are treated simply as vehicles of suggestion , what is suggested overrides the thing . Hence the playful attitude is one of free- dom . The person is not bound to the physical traits of things , nor does he care whether a thing ...
... things are treated simply as vehicles of suggestion , what is suggested overrides the thing . Hence the playful attitude is one of free- dom . The person is not bound to the physical traits of things , nor does he care whether a thing ...
Page 534
... things , from space , from light , from time , from man , but one with them and proceeds obviously from the same source whence their life and being also proceed . We first share the life by which things exist and afterwards see them as ...
... things , from space , from light , from time , from man , but one with them and proceeds obviously from the same source whence their life and being also proceed . We first share the life by which things exist and afterwards see them as ...
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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