Philosophical essays
By: Robert M. Hutchins, Mortimer J. Adler, editors in chief ; Clifton Fadiman, associate editor.
Contributors: Adler, Mortimer Jerome, 1902-; Hutchins, Robert Maynard, 1899-
Series: Gateway to the great books -- 10
Publisher: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Published: 1963
Place of publication: Chicago; Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 580
Subjects: Literature -- Collections.
Other titles: Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Notes: Complements Great books of the western world (AC 1 G7 1952); includes only short works.

Includes bibliographical references.

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Table of contents: value: John Erskine / The moral obligation to be intelligent; value: William Kingdon Clifford / The ethics of belief; value: William James / The will to believe. The sentiment of rationality; value: John Dewey / The process of thought (from How we think); value: Epicurus / Letter to Herodotus. Letter to Menoeceus; value: Epictetus / The enchiridion - Walter Horatio Pater / The art of life (from The Renaissance); value: Plutarch / Contentment; value: Cicero / On friendship. On old age; value: Sir Francis Bacon / Of truth. Of death. Of adversity. Of love. Of friendship. Of anger; value: George Santayana / Lucretius. Goethe's Faust; value: Henry Adams / St. Thomas Aquinas; value: Voltaire / The philosophy of common sense (from Philosophical dictionary); value: John Stuart Mill / Nature - Ralph Waldo Emerson / Nature. Self-reliance. Montaigne; or, the skeptic - William Hazlitt / On the feeling of immortality in youth; value: Sir Thomas Browne / Immortality (from Urn-burial).