Gateway to the Great Books: Philosophical essaysRobert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler Encyclopædia 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 403
... evil , contributes unintentionally to the good . It contributes to the good inten- tionally , because the evil it does is , in his opinion , less than the evil it cures . He is the cruel surgeon to the disease of life . If he admitted ...
... evil , contributes unintentionally to the good . It contributes to the good inten- tionally , because the evil it does is , in his opinion , less than the evil it cures . He is the cruel surgeon to the disease of life . If he admitted ...
Page 440
... evil did not exist , the ribalds laughed . St. Augustine certainly tempted Satan when he fastened the Church to this doctrine that evil is only the privation of good , an amissio boni ; and that good alone exists . The point was ...
... evil did not exist , the ribalds laughed . St. Augustine certainly tempted Satan when he fastened the Church to this doctrine that evil is only the privation of good , an amissio boni ; and that good alone exists . The point was ...
Page 493
... evil has its good and good its evil side , but good often produces an overbalance of evil and evil an overbalance of good . This , however , is by no means the general tendency of either phenomenon . On the contrary , both good and evil ...
... evil has its good and good its evil side , but good often produces an overbalance of evil and evil an overbalance of good . This , however , is by no means the general tendency of either phenomenon . On the contrary , both good and evil ...
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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