Great Treasury of Western Thought: A Compendium of Important Statements on Man and His Institutions by the Great Thinkers in Western HistoryMortimer Jerome Adler, Charles Lincoln Van Doren Passages from the West's great written works, ranging from the Odyssey and the Old Testament to the Interpretation of Dreams and Ulysses, comment on love, knowledge, ethics, war, art, and other abiding topics. |
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... reason in three ways . First , by distracting the reason . we at- tend much to that which pleases us . Now when the attention is firmly fixed on one thing , it is either weakened in respect of other things , or it is entirely withdrawn ...
... reason in three ways . First , by distracting the reason . we at- tend much to that which pleases us . Now when the attention is firmly fixed on one thing , it is either weakened in respect of other things , or it is entirely withdrawn ...
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... reason , which good can be considered in two ways . First , as consisting in the consideration itself of reason ; and thus we have one principal virtue , called Prudence . - Sec- ondly , according as the reason puts its order into ...
... reason , which good can be considered in two ways . First , as consisting in the consideration itself of reason ; and thus we have one principal virtue , called Prudence . - Sec- ondly , according as the reason puts its order into ...
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... reason to append idealistic explanations of natural phe- nomena , to the great injury of physical investiga- tion . Kant , Critique of Pure Reason , Transcendental Dialectic 76 The mathematician , the natural philosopher , and the ...
... reason to append idealistic explanations of natural phe- nomena , to the great injury of physical investiga- tion . Kant , Critique of Pure Reason , Transcendental Dialectic 76 The mathematician , the natural philosopher , and the ...
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