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 224
... soul remains in the body , even though some other part of the body be lost , it will never lose sensation ; nay more , whatever portions of the soul may perish too , when that which enclosed it is removed either in whole or in part , if ...
... soul remains in the body , even though some other part of the body be lost , it will never lose sensation ; nay more , whatever portions of the soul may perish too , when that which enclosed it is removed either in whole or in part , if ...
Page 341
... soul - Socrates , who was pronounced by the oracle at Delphi to be the wisest of men . I need say no more . I have convinced myself , and I hold — in view of the rapid movement of the soul , its vivid memory of the past and its ...
... soul - Socrates , who was pronounced by the oracle at Delphi to be the wisest of men . I need say no more . I have convinced myself , and I hold — in view of the rapid movement of the soul , its vivid memory of the past and its ...
Page 379
... soul and her incapacity to survive the body . To say that the soul is material has a strange and barbarous sound to modern ears . We live after Descartes , who taught the world that the essence of the soul was consciousness ; and to ...
... soul and her incapacity to survive the body . To say that the soul is material has a strange and barbarous sound to modern ears . We live after Descartes , who taught the world that the essence of the soul was consciousness ; and to ...
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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