The Great Ideas Today 1963

582 Pages·1963·79.144 MB·English

by  Encyclopaedia Britannica

Angel Fate
Animal Form
Aristocracy God
Art Good and Evil
Astronomy Government
Beauty Habit
Being Happiness
Cause History
Chance Honor
Change Hypothesis
Citizen Idea
Constitution Immortality
Courage Induction
Custom and Convention Infinity
Definition Judgment
Democracy Justice
Desire Knowledge
Dialectic Labor
Duty Language
Education Law
Element Liberty
Emotion Life and Death
Eternity Logic
Evolution Love
Experience Man
Family Mathematics
The
Great laeas
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Mechanics
Medicine I^^^K!" Reli&o[ion 1
Memory and Imagirlation Revolution
Metaphysics Rhetoric
Mind Same and Other
Monarchy Science
Nature Sense
Necessity and Contirigency Sign and Symbol
Ohgarchy Sin
One and Many Slavery
Opinion Soul
Opposition Space
Philosophy State
Physics Temperance
Pleasure and Pain Theology
Poetry Time
Principle Truth
Progress Tyranny
Prophecy Universal and Particular
Prudence Virtue and Vice
Punishment War and Peace
Quality Wealth
Quantity Will
Reasoning Wisdom
Relation World
THE GREAT IDEAS TODAY 1963
THE FALL OF ICARUS
by Peter Paul Rubens
Icarus did not heedthe warningsofhisfatherandflew too close tothesun;
thewax whichheldtogetherhiswingsmelted,
and Icarus crashedtohisdeath.
THE
GREAT
IDEAS
TODAY
1963
WILLIAM BENTON
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1963 By Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
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Existentialism by Jean-Paul Sartre,
translated by Bernard Frechtman.
© 1947 by The Philosophical Library, Inc.
Reprinted by permission.
"Death in Venice" reprinted from
Stories of Three Decades by Thomas Mann,
translated by H. T. Lowe-Porter,
by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.,
Copyright 1930, 1936, by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.,
andby permission of Martin Seeker & Warburg Limited.
THE GREAT IDEAS TODAY 1963
Robert M. Hutchins Mortimer Adler
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