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 50
... truth and gaining it is not momentous , we can throw the chance of gaining truth away , and at any rate save ourselves from any chance of believing falsehood , by not making up our minds at all till ob- jective evidence has come . In ...
... truth and gaining it is not momentous , we can throw the chance of gaining truth away , and at any rate save ourselves from any chance of believing falsehood , by not making up our minds at all till ob- jective evidence has come . In ...
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... truth by itself at all . It is only truth as technically verified that interests her . The truth of truths might come in merely affirmative form , and she would decline to touch it . Such truth as that , she might repeat with Clifford ...
... truth by itself at all . It is only truth as technically verified that interests her . The truth of truths might come in merely affirmative form , and she would decline to touch it . Such truth as that , she might repeat with Clifford ...
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... truth . To pass from theological and philosophical truth to the truth of civil business , it will be acknowledged even by those that practise it not that clear and round dealing is the honour of man's nature ; and that mixture of ...
... truth . To pass from theological and philosophical truth to the truth of civil business , it will be acknowledged even by those that practise it not that clear and round dealing is the honour of man's nature ; and that mixture of ...
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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