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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... virtue of intelligence . But before we claim the virtue , are we convinced that it is a virtue , not a peril ? The disposition to consider intelligence a peril is an old Anglo - Saxon inheritance . Our ancestors have celebrated this ...
... virtue of intelligence . But before we claim the virtue , are we convinced that it is a virtue , not a peril ? The disposition to consider intelligence a peril is an old Anglo - Saxon inheritance . Our ancestors have celebrated this ...
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... virtue , but of the belief men have that they possess virtue . The fact is that fewer people are endowed with virtue than wish to be thought to be so . It is such people that take delight in flattery . When they are addressed in ...
... virtue , but of the belief men have that they possess virtue . The fact is that fewer people are endowed with virtue than wish to be thought to be so . It is such people that take delight in flattery . When they are addressed in ...
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... virtue of prosperity is temperance ; the virtue of adversity is fortitude , which in morals is the more heroical virtue . Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament ; adversity is the blessing of the New , which carrieth the ...
... virtue of prosperity is temperance ; the virtue of adversity is fortitude , which in morals is the more heroical virtue . Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament ; adversity is the blessing of the New , which carrieth the ...
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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