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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... faith acts on the above him as a claim , and creates its own verification . powers A social organism of any sort whatever , large or small , is what it is be- cause each member proceeds to his own duty with a trust that the other ...
... faith acts on the above him as a claim , and creates its own verification . powers A social organism of any sort whatever , large or small , is what it is be- cause each member proceeds to his own duty with a trust that the other ...
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... faith as an ingredient in our mental attitude is strongly insisted on by the scientific philosophers of the present day ; but by a singularly arbitrary caprice they say that it is only legitimate when used in the interests of one ...
... faith as an ingredient in our mental attitude is strongly insisted on by the scientific philosophers of the present day ; but by a singularly arbitrary caprice they say that it is only legitimate when used in the interests of one ...
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... faith that we shall not fail ; and that faith in turn on the faith that we are right , which faith thus verifies itself . Take as an example the question of optimism or pessimism , which makes so much noise just now in Germany . Every ...
... faith that we shall not fail ; and that faith in turn on the faith that we are right , which faith thus verifies itself . Take as an example the question of optimism or pessimism , which makes so much noise just now in Germany . Every ...
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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