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For it is not possible so to sever the belief from the action it suggests as to condemn the one without condemning the other . ... Nor is that truly a belief at all which has not some influence upon the actions of him who holds it .
For it is not possible so to sever the belief from the action it suggests as to condemn the one without condemning the other . ... Nor is that truly a belief at all which has not some influence upon the actions of him who holds it .
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IV When you set about any action , remind yourself of what nature the action is . If you are going to bathe , represent to yourself the incidents usual in the bath — some persons pouring out , others pushing in , others scolding ...
IV When you set about any action , remind yourself of what nature the action is . If you are going to bathe , represent to yourself the incidents usual in the bath — some persons pouring out , others pushing in , others scolding ...
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Right action must mean something more and other than merely intelligent action ; yet no precept beyond this last can be connected with the word nature in the wider and more philosophical of its acceptations .
Right action must mean something more and other than merely intelligent action ; yet no precept beyond this last can be connected with the word nature in the wider and more philosophical of its acceptations .
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Contents
JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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action activity affection appear become beginning believe better body Books bring called carried cause character Church conception consider course death definite desire direct doubt evidence evil existence experience expression fact faith Faust fear feeling follow force friendship give given hand human idea imagination important individual intellectual intelligence interest keep kind knowledge least less light live logical look material matter meaning method mind moral nature never object observation old age once particular pass person philosopher play pleasure poet possible practical present principle problem qualities question reason reflection relation remains result seems sense soul speak stand suggested suppose things Thomas thought tion true truth turn understanding universe virtue whole wish
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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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