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 108
... understandings to range in , for the gathering up of information and furnishing their heads with ideas and notions ... Understanding , Bk . IV , Ch . XX , " Of Wrong Assent or Error . " [ See Great Books of the Western World , Vol . 35 ...
... understandings to range in , for the gathering up of information and furnishing their heads with ideas and notions ... Understanding , Bk . IV , Ch . XX , " Of Wrong Assent or Error . " [ See Great Books of the Western World , Vol . 35 ...
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... understanding - tech- nically called apprehension - with indirect , mediated understanding- technically called comprehension . III THE PROCESS BY WHICH THINGS ACQUIRE MEANING The first problem that comes up in connection with direct ...
... understanding - tech- nically called apprehension - with indirect , mediated understanding- technically called comprehension . III THE PROCESS BY WHICH THINGS ACQUIRE MEANING The first problem that comes up in connection with direct ...
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... understanding only when there is either a desired consequence for which means have to be found by inquiry , or things ( including symbols in the degree in which experience has matured ) are presented under con- ditions where reflection ...
... understanding only when there is either a desired consequence for which means have to be found by inquiry , or things ( including symbols in the degree in which experience has matured ) are presented under con- ditions where reflection ...
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
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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