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 39
... live and dead wires , let us speak of any hypothesis as either live or dead . A live hypothesis is one which appeals as a real possibility to him to whom it is proposed . If I ask you to believe in the Mahdi , the notion makes 39 The ...
... live and dead wires , let us speak of any hypothesis as either live or dead . A live hypothesis is one which appeals as a real possibility to him to whom it is proposed . If I ask you to believe in the Mahdi , the notion makes 39 The ...
Page 233
... live a life of prudence , honour , and justice without living pleasantly . For the virtues are by nature bound up ... live like a god among men . For a man who lives among immortal blessings is not like to a mor- tal being ...
... live a life of prudence , honour , and justice without living pleasantly . For the virtues are by nature bound up ... live like a god among men . For a man who lives among immortal blessings is not like to a mor- tal being ...
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... live in the present , but with reverted eye laments the past , or , heedless of the riches that surround him , stands on tiptoe to foresee the future . He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present , above ...
... live in the present , but with reverted eye laments the past , or , heedless of the riches that surround him , stands on tiptoe to foresee the future . He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present , above ...
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JOHN ERSKINE 1 | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES 37 | 37 |
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action activity Aristotle atoms attitude become believe better body called cause character Church Cicero conception death Democritus Descartes divine Epictetus Epicurean Epicurus everything evidence evil existence experience fact faith Faust fear feeling friendship Gaius Laelius give Goethe habit human hypothesis idea ideal imagination important inference infinite intellectual intelligence interest judgment kind knowledge Laelius live logical look Lucretius man's matter meaning mental Mephistopheles method Metrocles mind moral nature never notion object observation old age ourselves passion person philosopher Plato pleasure Plutarch poet possible practical present problem qualities question reason reflection religion scientific Scipio seems sense Socrates soul speak Spinoza spirit Spurius Maelius suggested suppose Tarentum things Thomas thought Tiberius Gracchus tion true truth understanding universe virtue Voltaire W. K. Clifford Western World whole wish word