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 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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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