| Description |
vii, 580 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
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Gateway to the great books ; 10 |
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Gateway to the great books ; 10.
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| Contents |
The moral obligation to be intelligent / John Erskine -- The ethics of belief / William Kingdon Clifford -- The will to believe ; The sentiment of rationality / William James -- The process of thought from How we think / John Dewey -- Letter to Herodotus ; Letter to Menoeceus / Epicurus -- The enchiridion / Epictetus -- The art of life from The renaissance -- Walter Horatio Pater -- Contentment / Plutarch -- On friendship ; On old age / Cicero -- Of truth ; Of death ; Of |
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adversity ; Of love ; Of friendship ; Of anger / Sir Francis Bacon -- Lucretius ; Goethe's faust / George Santayana. |
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St. Thomas Aquinas / Henry Adams -- The philosophy of common sense from Philosophical dictionary / Voltaire -- Nature / John Stuart Mill -- Nature ; Self-reliance ; Montaigne ; or, the skeptic / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- On the feeling of immortality in youth / William Hazlitt -- Immortality from Urn-burial / Sir Thomas Browne. |
| Added Author |
Hutchins, Robert Maynard, 1899-1977.
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Adler, Mortimer J. (Mortimer Jerome), 1902-2001.
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