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 22
... better , who have been brought up from the cradle with a horror of doubt , and taught that their eternal welfare ... better than Truth , will pro- ceed by loving his own sect or Church better than Christianity , and end in loving himself ...
... better , who have been brought up from the cradle with a horror of doubt , and taught that their eternal welfare ... better than Truth , will pro- ceed by loving his own sect or Church better than Christianity , and end in loving himself ...
Page 92
... better than others ; the reasons why they are better can be set forth . The person who understands what the better ways of thinking are and why they are better can , if he will , change his own personal ways until they become more ...
... better than others ; the reasons why they are better can be set forth . The person who understands what the better ways of thinking are and why they are better can , if he will , change his own personal ways until they become more ...
Page 233
... better man than he who holds reverent opinions concerning the gods , and is at all times free from fear of death , and has reasoned out the end ordained by nature ? He understands that the limit of good things is easy to fulfil and easy ...
... better man than he who holds reverent opinions concerning the gods , and is at all times free from fear of death , and has reasoned out the end ordained by nature ? He understands that the limit of good things is easy to fulfil and easy ...
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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