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 142
... pass . Every time we have to solve a problem of this kind , things enter into the means - consequence relation and in doing so take on added meaning , just as carbon filaments obtained a new significance through the production of ...
... pass . Every time we have to solve a problem of this kind , things enter into the means - consequence relation and in doing so take on added meaning , just as carbon filaments obtained a new significance through the production of ...
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... pass the gates of Death . [ Theognis , 427 ] For if he says this from conviction why does he not pass away out of life ? For it is open to him to do so , if he had firmly made up his mind to this . But if he speaks in jest , his words ...
... pass the gates of Death . [ Theognis , 427 ] For if he says this from conviction why does he not pass away out of life ? For it is open to him to do so , if he had firmly made up his mind to this . But if he speaks in jest , his words ...
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... pass again into his neutrality ! Who can thus avoid all pledges and , having observed , observe again from the same unaffected , unbiased , unbribable , unaffrighted innocence must always be formidable . He would utter opinions on all ...
... pass again into his neutrality ! Who can thus avoid all pledges and , having observed , observe again from the same unaffected , unbiased , unbribable , unaffrighted innocence must always be formidable . He would utter opinions on all ...
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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