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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 75
Page 174
... interest in activity for its own sake and interest in the external result of that activity , but between an interest in an activity just as it flows on from moment to moment and an interest in an activity as tending to a culmination ...
... interest in activity for its own sake and interest in the external result of that activity , but between an interest in an activity just as it flows on from moment to moment and an interest in an activity as tending to a culmination ...
Page 178
... interest is not enough . Given interest , the important matter is what kind of object and action enlists it . Is it something transitory or is it enduring ? Is the interest mainly one of excitement or is thought involved ? Hence the ...
... interest is not enough . Given interest , the important matter is what kind of object and action enlists it . Is it something transitory or is it enduring ? Is the interest mainly one of excitement or is thought involved ? Hence the ...
Page 183
... interest in geometric and mechanical problems . The interest in cooking should grow into an interest in chemical experimentation and the physiology and hygiene of bodily growth . The original casual making of pictures should pass to an ...
... interest in geometric and mechanical problems . The interest in cooking should grow into an interest in chemical experimentation and the physiology and hygiene of bodily growth . The original casual making of pictures should pass to an ...
Contents
JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
Copyright | |
17 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
action activity affection appear become beginning believe better body Books bring called carried cause character Church conception consider course death definite desire direct doubt evidence evil existence experience expression fact faith Faust fear feeling follow force friendship give given hand happen hope human idea imagination important individual intellectual intelligence interest kind knowledge least less live logical look material matter meaning method mind moral nature never object observation old age once particular pass person philosopher play pleasure poet possible practical present principle problem qualities question reason reflection relation remains result rule seems sense soul speak stand suggested suppose things Thomas thought tion true truth turn understanding universe virtue whole wish