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 62
... turns , will take nothing as an equivalent for life but the fullness of living itself . Since the essences of things ... turn recurs . The exaggerated dignity and value that philosophers have claimed for their solutions is thus greatly ...
... turns , will take nothing as an equivalent for life but the fullness of living itself . Since the essences of things ... turn recurs . The exaggerated dignity and value that philosophers have claimed for their solutions is thus greatly ...
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Robert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler. ahead and turning back in scrutiny , should alternate . Unconsciousness ... turn , as far as conscious attention and reflection are con- cerned , to something else . Then after the mind has ...
Robert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler. ahead and turning back in scrutiny , should alternate . Unconsciousness ... turn , as far as conscious attention and reflection are con- cerned , to something else . Then after the mind has ...
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... turn a blind eye your own ? Το Why , my good man , do you stare at your own evil so narrowly and make it vivid and conspicuous , but fail to turn your attention to the good things you have ? You concentrate the worst of your qualities ...
... turn a blind eye your own ? Το Why , my good man , do you stare at your own evil so narrowly and make it vivid and conspicuous , but fail to turn your attention to the good things you have ? You concentrate the worst of your qualities ...
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