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 89
... expression . Through interaction with something external to it , the wine press , or the treading foot of man , juice results . Skin and seeds are separated and retained ; only when the apparatus is defective are they discharged . Even ...
... expression . Through interaction with something external to it , the wine press , or the treading foot of man , juice results . Skin and seeds are separated and retained ; only when the apparatus is defective are they discharged . Even ...
Page 191
... expression of thought ” conveys only a half - truth , and a half - truth that is likely to result in positive error . Language does express thought , but not primarily , nor , at first , even consciously . The primary motive for ...
... expression of thought ” conveys only a half - truth , and a half - truth that is likely to result in positive error . Language does express thought , but not primarily , nor , at first , even consciously . The primary motive for ...
Page 497
... expressions of his character than the rest ; and the only selection which does not lead to immoral results is the ... expression of a single omnipotent and consistent will , is evidently not the end intended by it . There is , however ...
... expressions of his character than the rest ; and the only selection which does not lead to immoral results is the ... expression of a single omnipotent and consistent will , is evidently not the end intended by it . There is , however ...
Contents
JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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action activity Aristotle atoms attitude become believe better body called cause character Church Cicero conception death Democritus Descartes divine Epictetus Epicurean Epicurus everything evidence evil existence experience fact faith Faust fear feeling friendship Gaius Laelius give Goethe habit human hypothesis idea ideal imagination important inference infinite intellectual intelligence interest judgment kind knowledge Laelius live logical look Lucretius man's matter meaning mental Mephistopheles method Metrocles mind moral nature never notion object observation old age ourselves passion person philosopher Plato pleasure Plutarch poet possible practical present problem qualities question reason reflection religion scientific Scipio seems sense Socrates soul speak Spinoza spirit Spurius Maelius suggested suppose Tarentum things Thomas thought Tiberius Gracchus tion true truth understanding universe virtue Voltaire W. K. Clifford Western World whole wish word