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The subjectivist in morals , when his moral feelings are at war with the facts about him , is always free to seek harmony by toning down the sensitiveness of the feelings . Being mere data , neither good nor evil in themselves , he may ...
The subjectivist in morals , when his moral feelings are at war with the facts about him , is always free to seek harmony by toning down the sensitiveness of the feelings . Being mere data , neither good nor evil in themselves , he may ...
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It cannot then be said that the question , Is this a moral world ? is a meaningless and unverifiable question because it deals with something nonphenomenal . Any question is full of meaning to which , as here , contrary answers lead to ...
It cannot then be said that the question , Is this a moral world ? is a meaningless and unverifiable question because it deals with something nonphenomenal . Any question is full of meaning to which , as here , contrary answers lead to ...
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What he renders , beyond such pictorial touches as language is capable of , is the moral inspiration which the scene brings to him . This moral inspiration is not drawn at all from the real processes of nature which every landscape ...
What he renders , beyond such pictorial touches as language is capable of , is the moral inspiration which the scene brings to him . This moral inspiration is not drawn at all from the real processes of nature which every landscape ...
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Contents
JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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| Title | Gateway to the Great Books: Philosophical essays Volume 10 of Gateway to the Great Books, Robert Maynard Hutchins |
| Editors | Robert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler |
| Publisher | Encyclopędia Britannica, 1963 |
| Length | 580 pages |
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