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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... Books movement , it is John Erskine . It was he who organized the first Great Books discussion classes at Columbia University . He suggested such classes as early as 1916 , but it was not until 1920 that they were first offered . Each ...
... Books movement , it is John Erskine . It was he who organized the first Great Books discussion classes at Columbia University . He suggested such classes as early as 1916 , but it was not until 1920 that they were first offered . Each ...
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... 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 Choctaw language would be if we now ...
... 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 Choctaw language would be if we now ...
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... books , put it down to the Greek literature of which it is known that he became an eager student in his old age . But what need of more ? Cato's own words will at once explain all I feel about old age . M. CATO . PUBLIUS CORNELIUS ...
... books , put it down to the Greek literature of which it is known that he became an eager student in his old age . But what need of more ? Cato's own words will at once explain all I feel about old age . M. CATO . PUBLIUS CORNELIUS ...
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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