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 80
... follow ? If they follow my direction , evidently my direction cannot wait on them . The only possible manner in which an evolutionist can use his standard is the obsequious method of forecasting the course society would take but for him ...
... follow ? If they follow my direction , evidently my direction cannot wait on them . The only possible manner in which an evolutionist can use his standard is the obsequious method of forecasting the course society would take but for him ...
Page 475
... Follow Nature " as their motto for moral action . In the doctrine of natural law , as found for ex- ample in Thomas Aquinas , the concept of nature provides the basis for a highly elaborated system of morality and justice . 2 Mill ...
... Follow Nature " as their motto for moral action . In the doctrine of natural law , as found for ex- ample in Thomas Aquinas , the concept of nature provides the basis for a highly elaborated system of morality and justice . 2 Mill ...
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... follow nature is unmeaning , since man has no power to do anything else than follow nature ; all his actions are done through and in obedience to some one or many of nature's physical or mental laws . In the other sense of the term ...
... follow nature is unmeaning , since man has no power to do anything else than follow nature ; all his actions are done through and in obedience to some one or many of nature's physical or mental laws . In the other sense of the term ...
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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