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 76
... philosopher across the way . The absurd abstraction of an intellect verbally formulating all its evidence and carefully estimating the probability thereof by a vulgar fraction by the size of whose denominator and numera- tor alone it is ...
... philosopher across the way . The absurd abstraction of an intellect verbally formulating all its evidence and carefully estimating the probability thereof by a vulgar fraction by the size of whose denominator and numera- tor alone it is ...
Page 245
... philosopher and heard a man speaking like Euphrates — though , indeed , who can speak like him ? —have a mind to be philosophers , too . Consider first , man , what the matter is , and what your own nature is able to bear . If you would ...
... philosopher and heard a man speaking like Euphrates — though , indeed , who can speak like him ? —have a mind to be philosophers , too . Consider first , man , what the matter is , and what your own nature is able to bear . If you would ...
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... philosopher ? And is Faust a philosophical poem ? If we say so , it must be by giving a certain latitude to our terms . Goethe was the wisest of mankind ; too wise , perhaps , to be a philosopher in the technical sense , or to try to ...
... philosopher ? And is Faust a philosophical poem ? If we say so , it must be by giving a certain latitude to our terms . Goethe was the wisest of mankind ; too wise , perhaps , to be a philosopher in the technical sense , or to try to ...
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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