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 89
... material which stands as raw material for a product of art , in relation to what is actually pressed out . It takes the wine press as well as grapes to ex - press juice , and it takes environing and resisting objects as well as internal ...
... material which stands as raw material for a product of art , in relation to what is actually pressed out . It takes the wine press as well as grapes to ex - press juice , and it takes environing and resisting objects as well as internal ...
Page 204
... material should be supplied by way of stimulus , not with dogmatic finality and rigidity . When pupils get the notion that any field of study has been definitely surveyed , that knowledge about it is exhaustive and final , they may ...
... material should be supplied by way of stimulus , not with dogmatic finality and rigidity . When pupils get the notion that any field of study has been definitely surveyed , that knowledge about it is exhaustive and final , they may ...
Page 379
... material nature of the soul and her incapacity to survive the body . To say that the soul is material has a strange and barbarous sound to modern ears . We live after Descartes , who taught the world that the essence of the soul was ...
... material nature of the soul and her incapacity to survive the body . To say that the soul is material has a strange and barbarous sound to modern ears . We live after Descartes , who taught the world that the essence of the soul was ...
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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