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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... human nature and his knowledge of it ; but it does not prove his super- human knowledge of theology . And if we admit for the sake of argument ( for it seems that we cannot do more ) that the progress made by Moslem nations in certain ...
... human nature and his knowledge of it ; but it does not prove his super- human knowledge of theology . And if we admit for the sake of argument ( for it seems that we cannot do more ) that the progress made by Moslem nations in certain ...
Page 387
... human statues , constantly before his eyes . This sympathetic interest in the immor- tals took the place , in the typical Greek mind , of any vivid hope of human immortality ; perhaps it made such a hope seem superfluous and inappro ...
... human statues , constantly before his eyes . This sympathetic interest in the immor- tals took the place , in the typical Greek mind , of any vivid hope of human immortality ; perhaps it made such a hope seem superfluous and inappro ...
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... human intervention . In the first of these senses , the doctrine that man ought to follow nature is unmeaning ... human action whatever consists in altering , and all useful action in improving , the spontaneous course of nature ...
... human intervention . In the first of these senses , the doctrine that man ought to follow nature is unmeaning ... human action whatever consists in altering , and all useful action in improving , the spontaneous course of nature ...
Contents
JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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