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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 56
Page 224
... existence . Now it is impossible to conceive the incorporeal as a separate existence , except the void ; and the void can neither act nor be acted upon , but only provides opportunity of motion through itself to bodies . So that those ...
... existence . Now it is impossible to conceive the incorporeal as a separate existence , except the void ; and the void can neither act nor be acted upon , but only provides opportunity of motion through itself to bodies . So that those ...
Page 225
... existence to all of them . All these properties have their own peculiar means of being per- ceived and distinguished , provided always that the aggregate body goes along with them and is never wrested from them , but in virtue of its ...
... existence to all of them . All these properties have their own peculiar means of being per- ceived and distinguished , provided always that the aggregate body goes along with them and is never wrested from them , but in virtue of its ...
Page 568
... existence I could pass in the same manner . This rarefied , refined existence seemed to have no end , nor stint , nor principle of decay in it . The print would remain long after I who looked on it had become the prey of worms . The ...
... existence I could pass in the same manner . This rarefied , refined existence seemed to have no end , nor stint , nor principle of decay in it . The print would remain long after I who looked on it had become the prey of worms . The ...
Contents
JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
Copyright | |
17 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
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