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 114
... possible of the nature of the situation with which he has to deal . Some of the conditions are obstacles and others are aids , resources . No matter whether these conditions come to him by direct perception or by memory , they form the ...
... possible of the nature of the situation with which he has to deal . Some of the conditions are obstacles and others are aids , resources . No matter whether these conditions come to him by direct perception or by memory , they form the ...
Page 115
... possible solutions ) thus form the two indispensable and correlative factors of all reflective activity . The two factors are carried on by means respectively of observation ( in which for convenience is included memory of prior ...
... possible solutions ) thus form the two indispensable and correlative factors of all reflective activity . The two factors are carried on by means respectively of observation ( in which for convenience is included memory of prior ...
Page 441
... possible background for a Church , as the Virgin and the Saviour frankly admitted by taking the foreground ; but the ... possible , but it was not possible in the thirteenth century nor is it now . St. Thomas ' settlement could not be a ...
... possible background for a Church , as the Virgin and the Saviour frankly admitted by taking the foreground ; but the ... possible , but it was not possible in the thirteenth century nor is it now . St. Thomas ' settlement could not be a ...
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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