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 116
... reflection has to an- swer . In the final situation the doubt has been dispelled ; the situation is post - reflective ; there results a direct experience of mastery , satisfaction , enjoyment . Here , then , are the limits within which ...
... reflection has to an- swer . In the final situation the doubt has been dispelled ; the situation is post - reflective ; there results a direct experience of mastery , satisfaction , enjoyment . Here , then , are the limits within which ...
Page 138
... reflection in order to understand it . No object or principle is so strange , peculiar , or remote that it may not be dwelt upon till its meaning becomes famil- iar - taken in on sight without reflection . We may come to see , perceive ...
... reflection in order to understand it . No object or principle is so strange , peculiar , or remote that it may not be dwelt upon till its meaning becomes famil- iar - taken in on sight without reflection . We may come to see , perceive ...
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... reflection is not choice , and though a man's mind reflected as perfectly as the facets of a lighthouse lantern , it would never reach a choice without an energy which impels it to act . Now let us read St. Thomas : Some kind of an ...
... reflection is not choice , and though a man's mind reflected as perfectly as the facets of a lighthouse lantern , it would never reach a choice without an energy which impels it to act . Now let us read St. Thomas : Some kind of an ...
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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