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 83
... keeping faith that , those interests once being granted , it is better for him to keep the promise in spite of everything . But the interests themselves are neither right nor wrong , except possibly with reference to some ulterior order ...
... keeping faith that , those interests once being granted , it is better for him to keep the promise in spite of everything . But the interests themselves are neither right nor wrong , except possibly with reference to some ulterior order ...
Page 237
... keep my own will in harmony with nature . ” And so with regard to every other action . For thus , if any impediment arises in bathing , you will be able to say , " It was not only to bathe that I desired , but to keep my will in harmony ...
... keep my own will in harmony with nature . ” And so with regard to every other action . For thus , if any impediment arises in bathing , you will be able to say , " It was not only to bathe that I desired , but to keep my will in harmony ...
Page 549
... keep it cool : no unadvised industry , no unrewarded self- devotion , no loss of the brains in toil . Am I an ox , or a dray ? You are both in extremes , he says . You that will have all solid , and a world of pig lead , deceive ...
... keep it cool : no unadvised industry , no unrewarded self- devotion , no loss of the brains in toil . Am I an ox , or a dray ? You are both in extremes , he says . You that will have all solid , and a world of pig lead , deceive ...
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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