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 425
... Church , Thomas next built God into the walls and towers of His Church , in the Trinity and its creation of mind and matter in time and space ; then finally he filled the Church by uniting mind and matter in man , or man's soul , giving ...
... Church , Thomas next built God into the walls and towers of His Church , in the Trinity and its creation of mind and matter in time and space ; then finally he filled the Church by uniting mind and matter in man , or man's soul , giving ...
Page 426
... Church could not accept this deity because the Church required a God who caused the universe . The two deities destroyed each other . One was passive ; the other active . Thomas warned Descartes of a logical quicksand which must ...
... Church could not accept this deity because the Church required a God who caused the universe . The two deities destroyed each other . One was passive ; the other active . Thomas warned Descartes of a logical quicksand which must ...
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... Church the compromise so necessary for its equilibrium . The balance of matter against mind was the same necessity in the Church Intellectual as the balance of thrusts in the arch of the Gothic cathedral . Nowhere did Thomas show his ...
... Church the compromise so necessary for its equilibrium . The balance of matter against mind was the same necessity in the Church Intellectual as the balance of thrusts in the arch of the Gothic cathedral . Nowhere did Thomas show his ...
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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