Basic Problems of Philosophy: Selected ReadingsDaniel J. Bronstein, Yervant Hovhannes Krikorian, Philip Paul Wiener |
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... kind there is one caution not to be omitted ; for I foresee that if ever men are roused by my admonitions to betake themselves seriously to experiment and bid farewell to sophistical doctrines , then indeed through the premature hurry ...
... kind there is one caution not to be omitted ; for I foresee that if ever men are roused by my admonitions to betake themselves seriously to experiment and bid farewell to sophistical doctrines , then indeed through the premature hurry ...
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... kind of contemplation that art comes into being . The artistic genius is one capable of this kind of contemplation ; going beyond the prac- tical bearing of the objects around him , he penetrates to the inner meaning of these objects ...
... kind of contemplation that art comes into being . The artistic genius is one capable of this kind of contemplation ; going beyond the prac- tical bearing of the objects around him , he penetrates to the inner meaning of these objects ...
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... kind of tragedy seems to me far to surpass the other two , for it shows us the greatest misfortune , not as an exception , not as something occasioned by rare circumstances or monstrous characters , but as arising easily and of itself ...
... kind of tragedy seems to me far to surpass the other two , for it shows us the greatest misfortune , not as an exception , not as something occasioned by rare circumstances or monstrous characters , but as arising easily and of itself ...
Contents
CHAPTER | 1 |
On the Improvement of the Understanding Benedict | 30 |
INTRODUCTION | 68 |
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