Philosophy and Religion: Selections from the Twentieth Century
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“What is relative is the symbolic knowledge by pre-existing concepts, which proceeds from the fixed to the moving, and not the intuitive knowledge which installs itself in that which is moving and adopts the very life of things. This intuition attains the absolute.” (Page 85)
“The main purpose or objective is to prepare the young for future responsibilities and for success in life, by means of acquisition of the organized bodies of information and prepared forms of skill which comprehend the material of instruction.” (Page 99)
“With compelling power he calls to each one: Follow me! Even” (Page 457)
“Firstly, every metaphysical question always covers the whole range of metaphysical problems. In every case it is itself the whole. Secondly, every metaphysical question can only be put in such a way that the questioner as such is by his very questioning involved in the question.” (Page 299)
“No epoch is homogeneous; whatever you may have assigned as the dominant note of a considerable period, it will always be possible to produce men, and great men, belonging to the same time, who exhibit themselves as antagonistic to the tone of their age.” (Page 166)
- Title: Philosophy and Religion: Selections from the Twentieth Century
- Authors: William James, Henri Bergson, John Dewey, Alfred North Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Karl Barth
- Edition: Second Edition
- Series: Great Books of the Western World
- Volume: 55
- Publishers: Robert P. Gwinn, Encyclopedia Britannica
- Print Publication Date: 1990
- Logos Release Date: 2016
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Philosophy and religion; Religion › Philosophy
- ISBNs: 0852295316, 9780852295311
- Resource ID: LLS:GBWW55
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T00:11:50Z