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 111
... mind , and to create a withdrawal from new intellectual contacts that are needed for learning . They can best be fought by cultivating that alert curiosity and spontane- ous outreaching for the new which is the essence of the open mind ...
... mind , and to create a withdrawal from new intellectual contacts that are needed for learning . They can best be fought by cultivating that alert curiosity and spontane- ous outreaching for the new which is the essence of the open mind ...
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... mind even when they do not find any immediate reference to actuality , provided they stay in the mind for use when new facts come to light . II THE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS OF REFLECTIVE ACTIVITY We now have before us the material for the ...
... mind even when they do not find any immediate reference to actuality , provided they stay in the mind for use when new facts come to light . II THE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS OF REFLECTIVE ACTIVITY We now have before us the material for the ...
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... Mind would rather ignore matter altogether . In the thirteenth century mind did , indeed , admit that matter was something - which it quite refuses to admit in the twentieth - but treated it as a nuisance to be abated . To the pure in ...
... Mind would rather ignore matter altogether . In the thirteenth century mind did , indeed , admit that matter was something - which it quite refuses to admit in the twentieth - but treated it as a nuisance to be abated . To the pure in ...
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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