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 232
... pleasure , when we feel pain owing to the absence of pleasure ; but when we do not feel pain , we no longer need pleasure . And for this cause we call pleasure the beginning and end of the blessed life . For we recognize pleasure as the ...
... pleasure , when we feel pain owing to the absence of pleasure ; but when we do not feel pain , we no longer need pleasure . And for this cause we call pleasure the beginning and end of the blessed life . For we recognize pleasure as the ...
Page 329
... pleasure and by them alone . Intellect is the best gift of nature or God : to this divine gift and endow- ment there is nothing so inimical as pleasure . For when appetite is our master , there is no place for self - control ; nor where ...
... pleasure and by them alone . Intellect is the best gift of nature or God : to this divine gift and endow- ment there is nothing so inimical as pleasure . For when appetite is our master , there is no place for self - control ; nor where ...
Page 332
... pleasure from Ambivius Turpio if seated in the front row at the theatre than if he was in the last , yet , after all , the man in the last row does get pleasure ; so youth , because it looks at pleasures at closer quarters , perhaps ...
... pleasure from Ambivius Turpio if seated in the front row at the theatre than if he was in the last , yet , after all , the man in the last row does get pleasure ; so youth , because it looks at pleasures at closer quarters , perhaps ...
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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