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 175
... Imagination and Utility . The sharp opposi- tion of play and work is usually associated with false notions of utility and imagination . Activity that is directed upon matters of home and neighbor- hood interest is depreciated as merely ...
... Imagination and Utility . The sharp opposi- tion of play and work is usually associated with false notions of utility and imagination . Activity that is directed upon matters of home and neighbor- hood interest is depreciated as merely ...
Page 212
... Imagination the Remote . The need for both imagination and observation in every mental enterprise illustrates another aspect of the same principle . Teachers who have tried object lessons of the conventional type have usually found that ...
... Imagination the Remote . The need for both imagination and observation in every mental enterprise illustrates another aspect of the same principle . Teachers who have tried object lessons of the conventional type have usually found that ...
Page 389
... imagination , superstition is not only moving in itself , a capital subject for tragedy and for comedy , but it reinforces the materialistic way of thinking , and shows that it may be extended to the most complex and emotional spheres ...
... imagination , superstition is not only moving in itself , a capital subject for tragedy and for comedy , but it reinforces the materialistic way of thinking , and shows that it may be extended to the most complex and emotional spheres ...
Contents
JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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