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 240
... wish your children and your wife and your friends to live forever , you are foolish , for you wish things to be in your power which are not so , and what belongs to others to be your own . So likewise , if you wish your servant to be ...
... wish your children and your wife and your friends to live forever , you are foolish , for you wish things to be in your power which are not so , and what belongs to others to be your own . So likewise , if you wish your servant to be ...
Page 463
... wish to live in your country , and foreigners wish to come to it . All men have the right in the bottom of their hearts to think themselves entirely equal to other men . It does not follow from this that the cardinal's cook should order ...
... wish to live in your country , and foreigners wish to come to it . All men have the right in the bottom of their hearts to think themselves entirely equal to other men . It does not follow from this that the cardinal's cook should order ...
Page 556
... wish every one committed , and he penetrates the popular patriotism . His politics are those of the " Soul's Errand " of Sir Walter Raleigh ; or of Krishna , in the Bhagavat , “ There is none who is worthy of my love or hatred " ; while ...
... wish every one committed , and he penetrates the popular patriotism . His politics are those of the " Soul's Errand " of Sir Walter Raleigh ; or of Krishna , in the Bhagavat , “ There is none who is worthy of my love or hatred " ; while ...
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