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 31
... conception of beneficence , which we can compare with any proposed course of conduct and ask , " Is this beneficent or not ? " By the continual asking and answering of such questions the conception grows in breadth and distinctness ...
... conception of beneficence , which we can compare with any proposed course of conduct and ask , " Is this beneficent or not ? " By the continual asking and answering of such questions the conception grows in breadth and distinctness ...
Page 153
... conception , instead of using , even with additions , traits of this kind , determines meaning on a different basis . The present definition of metal is about like this : Metal means any chemical element that enters into combination ...
... conception , instead of using , even with additions , traits of this kind , determines meaning on a different basis . The present definition of metal is about like this : Metal means any chemical element that enters into combination ...
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... conception of things is a great work of imagination - greater , I think , than any dramatic or moral my- thology : it is a conception fit to inspire great poetry , and in the end , perhaps , it will prove the only conception able to ...
... conception of things is a great work of imagination - greater , I think , than any dramatic or moral my- thology : it is a conception fit to inspire great poetry , and in the end , perhaps , it will prove the only conception able to ...
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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