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 132
... stand out , but he also places it in a scale of the land values of the whole community . Something of this sort happens in all judgment . UNDERSTANDING : IDEAS AND MEANINGS I IDEAS AS SUGGESTIONS AND CONJECTURES We see something moving ...
... stand out , but he also places it in a scale of the land values of the whole community . Something of this sort happens in all judgment . UNDERSTANDING : IDEAS AND MEANINGS I IDEAS AS SUGGESTIONS AND CONJECTURES We see something moving ...
Page 166
... stands for . It is not enough to load the memory with statement of facts and laws and then hope that later in life by some magic the mind will find a use for them . Even general prin- ciples , when merely memorized , stand on the same ...
... stands for . It is not enough to load the memory with statement of facts and laws and then hope that later in life by some magic the mind will find a use for them . Even general prin- ciples , when merely memorized , stand on the same ...
Page 347
... stand upon the shore , and to see ships tossed upon the sea ; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle , and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below ; but no pleasure is compa- rable to the standing upon the vantage ground ...
... stand upon the shore , and to see ships tossed upon the sea ; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle , and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below ; but no pleasure is compa- rable to the standing upon the vantage ground ...
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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