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 292
... affection is ever shared by two persons only , or at most by a few . Now friendship may be thus defined : a complete accord on all subjects human and divine , joined with mutual good will and affection . And with the exception of wisdom ...
... affection is ever shared by two persons only , or at most by a few . Now friendship may be thus defined : a complete accord on all subjects human and divine , joined with mutual good will and affection . And with the exception of wisdom ...
Page 307
... affection for the shepherds whom they have for many years looked upon as their parents . Much more ought this to be so in the case of real and undoubted parents . For the advantages of genius and virtue , and in short of every kind of ...
... affection for the shepherds whom they have for many years looked upon as their parents . Much more ought this to be so in the case of real and undoubted parents . For the advantages of genius and virtue , and in short of every kind of ...
Page 315
... affection of young men , as in the case of yourselves and Quintus Tubero : nay more , I delight in the intimacy of such a very young man as Publius Rutilius and Aulus Verginius . And since the law of our nature and of our life is that a ...
... affection of young men , as in the case of yourselves and Quintus Tubero : nay more , I delight in the intimacy of such a very young man as Publius Rutilius and Aulus Verginius . And since the law of our nature and of our life is that a ...
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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 happen hope human idea imagination important individual intellectual intelligence interest kind knowledge least less 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 rule seems sense soul speak stand suggested suppose things Thomas thought tion true truth turn understanding universe virtue whole wish