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 117
... tion after another as a leading idea , or hypothesis , to initiate and guide observation and other operations in collection of factual material ; ( 4 ) the mental elaboration of the idea or supposition as an idea or supposition ...
... tion after another as a leading idea , or hypothesis , to initiate and guide observation and other operations in collection of factual material ; ( 4 ) the mental elaboration of the idea or supposition as an idea or supposition ...
Page 175
... tion of play and work is usually associated with false notions of utility and imagination . Activity that is directed upon matters of home and neighbor- hood interest is depreciated as merely utilitarian . To let the child wash dishes ...
... tion of play and work is usually associated with false notions of utility and imagination . Activity that is directed upon matters of home and neighbor- hood interest is depreciated as merely utilitarian . To let the child wash dishes ...
Page 207
... tion , reasoning , testing , etc. The chief value of the analysis that has been given is therefore to suggest to teachers the ways in which reflective thought may be best secured in students without the latter being made conscious at ...
... tion , reasoning , testing , etc. The chief value of the analysis that has been given is therefore to suggest to teachers the ways in which reflective thought may be best secured in students without the latter being made conscious at ...
Contents
JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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action activity affection appear become beginning believe better body Books bring called carried cause character Church conception consider course death definite desire direct doubt evidence evil existence experience expression fact faith Faust fear feeling follow force friendship give given hand happen hope human idea imagination important individual intellectual intelligence interest kind knowledge least less live logical look material matter meaning method mind moral nature never object observation old age once particular pass person philosopher play pleasure poet possible practical present principle problem qualities question reason reflection relation remains result rule seems sense soul speak stand suggested suppose things Thomas thought tion true truth turn understanding universe virtue whole wish