Gateway to the Great Books: Philosophical essaysRobert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler Encyclopædia 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 102
... present physio- logical state by some present external stimulus . The being who can think is moved by remote considerations , by results that can be attained perhaps only after a lapse of years — as when a young person sets out to gain ...
... present physio- logical state by some present external stimulus . The being who can think is moved by remote considerations , by results that can be attained perhaps only after a lapse of years — as when a young person sets out to gain ...
Page 209
... present is compatible with condensation of far - reaching meanings in the present . Such enrichment of the present for its own sake is the just heritage of childhood and the best insurer of future growth . The child forced into ...
... present is compatible with condensation of far - reaching meanings in the present . Such enrichment of the present for its own sake is the just heritage of childhood and the best insurer of future growth . The child forced into ...
Page 459
... present , the present is delivered of the future ; every being has a father , but every being does not always have children . Here it is precisely as with a genea- logical tree : each house goes back , as we say , to Adam ; but in the ...
... present , the present is delivered of the future ; every being has a father , but every being does not always have children . Here it is precisely as with a genea- logical tree : each house goes back , as we say , to Adam ; but in the ...
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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