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 21
... become a den of thieves ; for then it must cease to be society . This is why we ought not to do evil that good may come ; for at any rate this great evil has come , that we have done evil and are made wicked thereby . In like manner ...
... become a den of thieves ; for then it must cease to be society . This is why we ought not to do evil that good may come ; for at any rate this great evil has come , that we have done evil and are made wicked thereby . In like manner ...
Page 165
... become a subject matter of their own . It is an intellectual satisfaction to develop them in their logical relations of interdependence , of implication , without any reference at all to their immediate or even ulterior application to ...
... become a subject matter of their own . It is an intellectual satisfaction to develop them in their logical relations of interdependence , of implication , without any reference at all to their immediate or even ulterior application to ...
Page 166
... become a dead weight of undigested , mechanical , largely verbal , so - called “ infor- mation , " while ideas become so remote from objects and acts of experience that they are empty . Instead of being means for better understanding ...
... become a dead weight of undigested , mechanical , largely verbal , so - called “ infor- mation , " while ideas become so remote from objects and acts of experience that they are empty . Instead of being means for better understanding ...
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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