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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... according as the desirer tends towards the thing desired . Thus the term of the appetite , namely good , is in the thing desirable , and the term of knowledge , namely true , is in the intellect itself . Now as good exists in a thing so ...
... according as the desirer tends towards the thing desired . Thus the term of the appetite , namely good , is in the thing desirable , and the term of knowledge , namely true , is in the intellect itself . Now as good exists in a thing so ...
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... according to what he encounters . He must live not so much according to himself as according to others , not according to what he proposes to himself but ac- cording to what others propose to him , according to the time , according to ...
... according to what he encounters . He must live not so much according to himself as according to others , not according to what he proposes to himself but ac- cording to what others propose to him , according to the time , according to ...
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... according to their will , it is called liberty . But it is really licence . Cicero , Republic , III , 13 7 Where the Spirit of the Lord is , there is liberty . II Corinthians 3:17 8 By liberty is understood . . . the absence of exter ...
... according to their will , it is called liberty . But it is really licence . Cicero , Republic , III , 13 7 Where the Spirit of the Lord is , there is liberty . II Corinthians 3:17 8 By liberty is understood . . . the absence of exter ...
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