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 310
... virtue ; for without virtue we can obtain neither friendship nor anything else desirable . In fact , if virtue be neglected , those who imagine them- selves to possess friends will find out their error as soon as some grave disaster ...
... virtue ; for without virtue we can obtain neither friendship nor anything else desirable . In fact , if virtue be neglected , those who imagine them- selves to possess friends will find out their error as soon as some grave disaster ...
Page 314
... virtue , but of the belief men have that they possess virtue . The fact is that fewer people are endowed with virtue than wish to be thought to be so . It is such people that take delight in flattery . When they are addressed in ...
... virtue , but of the belief men have that they possess virtue . The fact is that fewer people are endowed with virtue than wish to be thought to be so . It is such people that take delight in flattery . When they are addressed in ...
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... virtue of prosperity is temperance ; the virtue of adversity is fortitude , which in morals is the more heroical virtue . Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament ; adversity is the blessing of the New , which carrieth the ...
... virtue of prosperity is temperance ; the virtue of adversity is fortitude , which in morals is the more heroical virtue . Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament ; adversity is the blessing of the New , which carrieth the ...
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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