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John Erskine 1879-1951 If anyone f anyone can be called the “ father ” of the Great Books movement , it is John Erskine . It was he who organized the first Great Books discussion classes at Columbia University .
John Erskine 1879-1951 If anyone f anyone can be called the “ father ” of the Great Books movement , it is John Erskine . It was he who organized the first Great Books discussion classes at Columbia University .
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We apprehend chairs , tables , books , trees , horses , clouds , stars , rain so promptly and directly that it is hard to realize that once these objects were mere brute things , as alien to our understanding as the sounds of the ...
We apprehend chairs , tables , books , trees , horses , clouds , stars , rain so promptly and directly that it is hard to realize that once these objects were mere brute things , as alien to our understanding as the sounds of the ...
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Contents
JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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| Title | Gateway to the Great Books: Philosophical essays Volume 10 of Gateway to the Great Books, Robert Maynard Hutchins |
| Editors | Robert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler |
| Publisher | Encyclopędia Britannica, 1963 |
| Length | 580 pages |
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