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 217
... universe there is nothing which could come into it and bring about the change . Moreover , the universe is bodies and space : for that bodies exist , sense itself witnesses in the experience of all men , and in accordance with the ...
... universe there is nothing which could come into it and bring about the change . Moreover , the universe is bodies and space : for that bodies exist , sense itself witnesses in the experience of all men , and in accordance with the ...
Page 441
... universe . The world was there , staring them in the face , with all its chaotic conditions , and society insisted on its unity in self - defense . Society still insists on treating it as unity , though no longer affecting logic ...
... universe . The world was there , staring them in the face , with all its chaotic conditions , and society insisted on its unity in self - defense . Society still insists on treating it as unity , though no longer affecting logic ...
Page 449
... universe for truths , and tried to express them in a structure which should be final . Knowing by an enormous experience precisely where the strains were to come , they enlarged their scale to the utmost point of material endurance ...
... universe for truths , and tried to express them in a structure which should be final . Knowing by an enormous experience precisely where the strains were to come , they enlarged their scale to the utmost point of material endurance ...
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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