Gateway to the Great Books volume 10 Philosophical Essay
Edited by Robert M. Hutchins, Mortimer J. Adler and Clifton Fadiman
- Chicago, Illinois Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc. 1963
- 580 p.
- Gateway to the great books 10 volumes Vol. X .
v. 10. Philosophical Essays -- The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent / John Erskine -- The Ethics of Belief / William Kingdon Clifford -- The Will to Believe / William James -- The Sentiment of Rationality / William James -- The Process of Thought (from How We Think) / John Dewey -- Letter to Herodotus / Epicurus -- Letter to Menoeceus / Epicurus -- The Enchiridion / Epictetus -- The Art of Life (from The Renaissance) / Walter Horatio Pater -- Contentment / Plutarch -- On Friendship / Cicero -- On Old Age / Cicero -- Of Truth / Francis Bacon -- Of Death / Francis Bacon -- Of Adversity / Francis Bacon -- Of Love / Francis Bacon -- Of Friendship / Francis Bacon -- Of Anger / Francis Bacon -- Lucretius / George Santayana -- Goethe's Faust / George Santayana -- St. Thomas Aquinas / Henry Adams -- The Philosophy of Common Sense (from Philosophical Dictionary) / Voltaire
Complements Great Books of the Western World; includes only short works and excerpts from longer works.