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By this testing and discussion , not only has practice been purified and made more beneficent , but the very conception of beneficence has been made wider and wiser . Now here the great social heirloom consists of two parts : the ...
By this testing and discussion , not only has practice been purified and made more beneficent , but the very conception of beneficence has been made wider and wiser . Now here the great social heirloom consists of two parts : the ...
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And “ achieved understanding , " " established and solid meaning , ” and “ conception " are synonymous terms . ... We have now to consider the method by which a secure serial development of conceptions , one leading to another in ...
And “ achieved understanding , " " established and solid meaning , ” and “ conception " are synonymous terms . ... We have now to consider the method by which a secure serial development of conceptions , one leading to another in ...
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A naturalistic conception of things is a great work of imagination - greater , I think , than any dramatic or moral mythology : it is a conception fit to inspire great poetry , and in the end , perhaps , it will prove ...
A naturalistic conception of things is a great work of imagination - greater , I think , than any dramatic or moral mythology : it is a conception fit to inspire great poetry , and in the end , perhaps , it will prove ...
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Contents
JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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| Title | Gateway to the Great Books: Philosophical essays Volume 10 of Gateway to the Great Books, Robert Maynard Hutchins |
| Editors | Robert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler |
| Publisher | Encyclopędia Britannica, 1963 |
| Length | 580 pages |
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