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 194
... individuals and traits . The ordinary use of such terms as causation , law , society , individual , capital illustrates this tendency . In the history of language we find both aspects of the growth of vocabu- lary illustrated by changes ...
... individuals and traits . The ordinary use of such terms as causation , law , society , individual , capital illustrates this tendency . In the history of language we find both aspects of the growth of vocabu- lary illustrated by changes ...
Page 259
... individual in his isolation , each mind keeping as a solitary prisoner its own dream of a world . Analysis goes a step farther still , and assures us that those impressions of the individual mind to which , for each one of us ...
... individual in his isolation , each mind keeping as a solitary prisoner its own dream of a world . Analysis goes a step farther still , and assures us that those impressions of the individual mind to which , for each one of us ...
Page 432
... individual was a com- pound of form , or soul , and matter ; but both were always created to- gether , by the same act , out of nothing . Simpliciter fatendum est animas simul cum corporibus creari et infundi . It must be distinctly ...
... individual was a com- pound of form , or soul , and matter ; but both were always created to- gether , by the same act , out of nothing . Simpliciter fatendum est animas simul cum corporibus creari et infundi . It must be distinctly ...
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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