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 117
... tion after another as a leading idea , or hypothesis , to initiate and guide observation and other operations in collection of factual material ; ( 4 ) the mental elaboration of the idea or supposition as an idea or supposition ...
... tion after another as a leading idea , or hypothesis , to initiate and guide observation and other operations in collection of factual material ; ( 4 ) the mental elaboration of the idea or supposition as an idea or supposition ...
Page 175
... tion of play and work is usually associated with false notions of utility and imagination . Activity that is directed upon matters of home and neighbor- hood interest is depreciated as merely utilitarian . To let the child wash dishes ...
... tion of play and work is usually associated with false notions of utility and imagination . Activity that is directed upon matters of home and neighbor- hood interest is depreciated as merely utilitarian . To let the child wash dishes ...
Page 207
... tion , reasoning , testing , etc. The chief value of the analysis that has been given is therefore to suggest to teachers the ways in which reflective thought may be best secured in students without the latter being made conscious at ...
... tion , reasoning , testing , etc. The chief value of the analysis that has been given is therefore to suggest to teachers the ways in which reflective thought may be best secured in students without the latter being made conscious at ...
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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