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 74
... least afraid of . To say then that the universe essentially is thought is to say that I myself , potentially at least , am all . There is no radically alien corner , but an all - pervading intimacy . Now , in certain sensitively ...
... least afraid of . To say then that the universe essentially is thought is to say that I myself , potentially at least , am all . There is no radically alien corner , but an all - pervading intimacy . Now , in certain sensitively ...
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... least part in the atom too bears the same relation to the whole ; for though in smallness it is obvious that it exceeds that which is seen by sensation , yet it has the same relations . For indeed we have already declared on the ground ...
... least part in the atom too bears the same relation to the whole ; for though in smallness it is obvious that it exceeds that which is seen by sensation , yet it has the same relations . For indeed we have already declared on the ground ...
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... least apply ? Observe that this suggestion is not in the least opposed to any of the arguments by which science might prove the atomic theory to be correct . All that Epicurus taught about the universe now before us might be perfectly ...
... least apply ? Observe that this suggestion is not in the least opposed to any of the arguments by which science might prove the atomic theory to be correct . All that Epicurus taught about the universe now before us might be perfectly ...
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
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