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 80
... courses of action open before me , either of which I may suppose capable of altering the path of events , decide which course to take by asking what path events will follow ? If they follow my direction , evidently my direction cannot ...
... courses of action open before me , either of which I may suppose capable of altering the path of events , decide which course to take by asking what path events will follow ? If they follow my direction , evidently my direction cannot ...
Page 485
... course of the phenomena which come under our observation , but only their spontaneous course . Let us then consider whether we can attach any meaning to the sup- posed practical maxim of following nature in this second sense of the word ...
... course of the phenomena which come under our observation , but only their spontaneous course . Let us then consider whether we can attach any meaning to the sup- posed practical maxim of following nature in this second sense of the word ...
Page 508
... course of natural phenomena being replete with everything which when committed by human beings is most worthy of abhorrence , any one who endeavoured in his actions to imitate the natural course of things would be universally seen and ...
... course of natural phenomena being replete with everything which when committed by human beings is most worthy of abhorrence , any one who endeavoured in his actions to imitate the natural course of things would be universally seen and ...
Contents
JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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