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... abstract and impersonal terms . But there is something warmer and more human behind it . For what is Plato's remedy for the evils of his time ? That ' the philo- sopher should be king ' — again an abstract and impersonal state- ment ...
... abstract and impersonal terms . But there is something warmer and more human behind it . For what is Plato's remedy for the evils of his time ? That ' the philo- sopher should be king ' — again an abstract and impersonal state- ment ...
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... abstract words ; and the discipline of translating into , and out of , Greek and Latin has taught us that abstract words - as distinct from the names of tangible objects- have a strange habit of shifting their meanings . This happens ...
... abstract words ; and the discipline of translating into , and out of , Greek and Latin has taught us that abstract words - as distinct from the names of tangible objects- have a strange habit of shifting their meanings . This happens ...
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... abstract concepts . Dream - thought is a kind of passive thinking - the mind seems to watch a train of visual images , which pass before it unsummoned , as if arising spontaneously from some inner source . It is a flow of images and ...
... abstract concepts . Dream - thought is a kind of passive thinking - the mind seems to watch a train of visual images , which pass before it unsummoned , as if arising spontaneously from some inner source . It is a flow of images and ...
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The Harmony of the Spheres 1930 | 14 |
The Unwritten Philosophy 1935 | 28 |
Platos Commonwealth 1935 | 47 |
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