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 426
... cause must be proved as a cause , not merely as a sequence ; otherwise they must end in a universal energy or substance without causality - a source . Whatever God might be to others , to His Church he could not be a sequence or a ...
... cause must be proved as a cause , not merely as a sequence ; otherwise they must end in a universal energy or substance without causality - a source . Whatever God might be to others , to His Church he could not be a sequence or a ...
Page 443
... cause , and acts in all secondary causes directly ; but while He acts mechanically on the rest of creation — as far as is known - He acts freely at one point , and this free action remains free as far as it extends on that line . Man's ...
... cause , and acts in all secondary causes directly ; but while He acts mechanically on the rest of creation — as far as is known - He acts freely at one point , and this free action remains free as far as it extends on that line . Man's ...
Page 459
... cause , going back from cause to cause in the abyss of eternity ; but every cause has not its effect going forward to the end of the centuries . All events are pro- duced by each other , I admit ; if the past is delivered of the present ...
... cause , going back from cause to cause in the abyss of eternity ; but every cause has not its effect going forward to the end of the centuries . All events are pro- duced by each other , I admit ; if the past is delivered of the present ...
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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