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 31
... rule , and investigation into it , led men to see that true beneficence is that which helps a man to do the work which he is most fitted for , not that which keeps and encourages him in idleness ; and that to neglect this distinction in ...
... rule , and investigation into it , led men to see that true beneficence is that which helps a man to do the work which he is most fitted for , not that which keeps and encourages him in idleness ; and that to neglect this distinction in ...
Page 55
... rules for truth seeking , or willfully agree to keep my willing nature out of the game . I cannot do so for this plain ... rule . That for me is the long and short of the formal logic of the situation , no matter what the kinds of truth ...
... rules for truth seeking , or willfully agree to keep my willing nature out of the game . I cannot do so for this plain ... rule . That for me is the long and short of the formal logic of the situation , no matter what the kinds of truth ...
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... rule or standard of what ought to be . A little consideration , however , will show that this is not a case of ... rule for what ought to be a word which in its proper signification denotes what is , they do so because they have a notion ...
... rule or standard of what ought to be . A little consideration , however , will show that this is not a case of ... rule for what ought to be a word which in its proper signification denotes what is , they do so because they have a notion ...
Contents
JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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| Title | Gateway to the Great Books: Philosophical essays Volume 10 of Gateway to the Great Books, Robert Maynard Hutchins |
| Editors | Robert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler |
| Publisher | Encyclopędia Britannica, 1963 |
| Length | 644 pages |
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