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 103
... things , the collection of marks stands for some idea or object . We are so used to the fact that things have meaning for us , that they are not mere excitations of sense organs , that we fail to recognize that they are charged with the ...
... things , the collection of marks stands for some idea or object . We are so used to the fact that things have meaning for us , that they are not mere excitations of sense organs , that we fail to recognize that they are charged with the ...
Page 173
... things are treated simply as vehicles of suggestion , what is suggested overrides the thing . Hence the playful attitude is one of free- dom . The person is not bound to the physical traits of things , nor does he care whether a thing ...
... things are treated simply as vehicles of suggestion , what is suggested overrides the thing . Hence the playful attitude is one of free- dom . The person is not bound to the physical traits of things , nor does he care whether a thing ...
Page 179
... things to thought — as if any dealing with things in which thinking is not involved could possibly be educative . So understood , the maxim encourages mechanical routine or sensuous excitation at one end of the educational scale - the ...
... things to thought — as if any dealing with things in which thinking is not involved could possibly be educative . So understood , the maxim encourages mechanical routine or sensuous excitation at one end of the educational scale - the ...
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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