Gateway to the Great Books Vol 10 of 10 Author:Erskine, Clifford, William James, Dewey, Epicurus, Epictetus, Pater, Plutaech, Cicero, Bacon, Santayana, Adams, Voltaire, J. S. Mills, Emerson, Hazlitt, Browne. Volume 10: Philosophical Essays — John ERSKINE (1879-1951) p. 1 — "The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent" from The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent p. 5 — William Kingdon CLIFFORD (1845-1879) p. 14 — "The Ethics of Belief" from Lectures and Essays p. 16 — William JAMES (1842-1910) p. 37 — "The Will to Believe" from The Will to Believe and Other Ess... more »ays in Popular Philosophy p. 39
"The Sentiment of Rationality" from The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy p. 58
John DEWEY (1859-1852) p. 88
"The Process of Thought" from How We Think p. 92
EPICURUS (c. 341 B.C.-c. 271 B.C.) p. 214
"Letter to Herodotus" p. 216
"Letter to Menoeceus" p. 230
EPICTETUS (c. 60-c. 138) p. 234
The Enchiridion p. 236
Walter Horatio PATER (1839-1894) p. 255
"The Art of Life" from The Renaissance p. 258
PLUTARCH (c. 46-120) p. 262
"Contentment" from Moralia p. 264
CICERO (106-43 B.C.) p. 282
"On Friendship" p. 286
"On Old Age" p. 317
Sir Francis BACON (1561-1626) p. 344
"Of Truth" from Essays, Civil and Moral p. 346
"Of Death" from Essays, Civil and Moral p. 348
"Of Adversity" from Essays, Civil and Moral p. 350
"Of Love" from Essays, Civil and Moral p. 351
"Of Friendship" from Essays, Civil and Moral p. 353
"Of Anger" from Essays, Civil and Moral p. 359
George SANTAYANA (1863-1952) p. 361
"Lucretius" from Three Philosophical Poets p. 365
"Goethe's Faust" from Three Philosophical Poets p. 391
Henry ADAMS (1838-1910) p. 420
"St. Thomas Aquinas" from Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres p. 422
VOLTAIRE (1694-1778) p. 451
"The Philosophy of Common Sense" from Philosophical Dictionary p. 453
John Stuart MILL (1806-1873) p. 475
"Nature" from Three Essays on Religion p. 477
Ralph Waldo EMERSON (1803-1882) p. 509
"Nature" from Essays, Second Series p. 512
""Self-Reliance" from Essays, First Series p. 525
"Montaigne; or, the Skeptic" from Representative Men p. 546