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 110
... desire , the will , to employ them . This desire is an affair of personal disposition . But on the other hand the disposition alone will not suffice . There must also be understanding of the forms and techniques that are the channels ...
... desire , the will , to employ them . This desire is an affair of personal disposition . But on the other hand the disposition alone will not suffice . There must also be understanding of the forms and techniques that are the channels ...
Page 237
... desire ; for if you desire any of the things not within our own power , you must necessarily be disappointed ; and you are not yet secure of those which are within our power , and so are legitimate objects of desire . Where it is ...
... desire ; for if you desire any of the things not within our own power , you must necessarily be disappointed ; and you are not yet secure of those which are within our power , and so are legitimate objects of desire . Where it is ...
Page 561
... desire for the whole ; a desire raging , infinite ; a hunger , as of space to be filled with planets ; a cry of famine , as of devils for souls . Then for the satisfaction — to each man is administered a single drop , a bead of dew of ...
... desire for the whole ; a desire raging , infinite ; a hunger , as of space to be filled with planets ; a cry of famine , as of devils for souls . Then for the satisfaction — to each man is administered a single drop , a bead of dew of ...
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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action activity affection appear become beginning believe better body Books bring called carried cause character Church conception consider course death definite desire direct doubt evidence evil existence experience expression fact faith Faust fear feeling follow force friendship give given hand happen hope human idea imagination important individual intellectual intelligence interest kind knowledge least less live logical look material matter meaning method mind moral nature never object observation old age once particular pass person philosopher play pleasure poet possible practical present principle problem qualities question reason reflection relation remains result rule seems sense soul speak stand suggested suppose things Thomas thought tion true truth turn understanding universe virtue whole wish