Present Philosophical Tendencies: A Critical Survey of Naturalism, Idealism, Pragmatism, and Realism Together with a Synopsis of the Philosophy of William James |
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... hope , is the axiom of modern civilization . This is more peculiarly a modern idea than is commonly supposed . The ancient world had its dogmatic and its critical idea of progress . The former was the idea of national or racial ...
... hope , is the axiom of modern civilization . This is more peculiarly a modern idea than is commonly supposed . The ancient world had its dogmatic and its critical idea of progress . The former was the idea of national or racial ...
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... hope of salvation to another world which might be won by the repudiation of this . As Christian Europe became secularized , there developed the theocratic idea of a fixed system in which all human activities should be limited and ...
... hope of salvation to another world which might be won by the repudiation of this . As Christian Europe became secularized , there developed the theocratic idea of a fixed system in which all human activities should be limited and ...
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... hope it is clear that I am not attempting to divide men into believers and theorists . I am distinguishing not between classes of men , but between characteristic moods or states of mind . The difference , however , is not so much ...
... hope it is clear that I am not attempting to divide men into believers and theorists . I am distinguishing not between classes of men , but between characteristic moods or states of mind . The difference , however , is not so much ...
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... hope of civiliza- tion must mainly rely . In order that this shall be possible , it is necessary that beliefs should be transmitted together with problems and opportunities . Unless the burden is to fall , the young must not only grasp ...
... hope of civiliza- tion must mainly rely . In order that this shall be possible , it is necessary that beliefs should be transmitted together with problems and opportunities . Unless the burden is to fall , the young must not only grasp ...
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... hope to offer any general solution of what appears to be a recurrent and inevitable problem . It is of the very essence of life that it should be both conserved and changed . To belief , society owes tween Theory its cohesiveness and ...
... hope to offer any general solution of what appears to be a recurrent and inevitable problem . It is of the very essence of life that it should be both conserved and changed . To belief , society owes tween Theory its cohesiveness and ...
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