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If what prevails and survives does so by my help , and cannot do so without that help ; if something else will prevail in case I alter my conduct , how can I possibly now , conscious of alternative courses of action open before me ...
If what prevails and survives does so by my help , and cannot do so without that help ; if something else will prevail in case I alter my conduct , how can I possibly now , conscious of alternative courses of action open before me ...
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We must try it , therefore , in the other sense , that in which nature stands distinguished from art and denotes , not the whole course of the phenomena which come under our observation , but only their spontaneous course .
We must try it , therefore , in the other sense , that in which nature stands distinguished from art and denotes , not the whole course of the phenomena which come under our observation , but only their spontaneous course .
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In the other sense of the term , the doctrine that men ought to follow nature or , in other words , ought to make the spontaneous course of things the model of his voluntary actions is equally irrational and immoral : irrational ...
In the other sense of the term , the doctrine that men ought to follow nature or , in other words , ought to make the spontaneous course of things the model of his voluntary actions is equally irrational and immoral : irrational ...
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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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