Three Thousand Years of Educational Wisdom: Selections from Great DocumentsRobert Ulich Harvard University Press, 1954 - 668 pages "Three Thousand Years of Educational Wisdom" is an anthology of writings on education by great thinkers including Plato, Descartes, Dewey and Emerson taken from texts from Asia, Greek and Roman antiquity, ancient and medieval Christianity, Islam, the Judaic tradition and modern education. -- From product description. |
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... virtue , or if there be several human excellences or virtues , in conformity with the best and most perfect among ... virtue , our definition is in agreement ; for ' activity in conformity with virtue ' involves virtue . But no doubt it ...
... virtue , or if there be several human excellences or virtues , in conformity with the best and most perfect among ... virtue , our definition is in agreement ; for ' activity in conformity with virtue ' involves virtue . But no doubt it ...
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... virtue is thought to be a happy life ; but virtuous life involves serious purpose , and does not consist in ... virtue , as has been said already . VII . But if happiness consists in activity in accordance with vir- tue , it is ...
... virtue is thought to be a happy life ; but virtuous life involves serious purpose , and does not consist in ... virtue , as has been said already . VII . But if happiness consists in activity in accordance with vir- tue , it is ...
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... virtue , on the other hand , is happy only in a secondary degree . For the moral activities are purely human : Jus- tice , I mean , Courage and the other virtues we display in our inter- course with our fellows , when we observe what is ...
... virtue , on the other hand , is happy only in a secondary degree . For the moral activities are purely human : Jus- tice , I mean , Courage and the other virtues we display in our inter- course with our fellows , when we observe what is ...
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able action activity Adeimantus Aeneas aristoi Aristotle astronomy become better body Brahman called child Christian Cicero Confucius desire divine duty evil exercise external eyes father Froebel give Glaucon Greek gymnastics habit hand happiness hath heart heaven Hegel Hesiod Holy honor human Ibn Khaldoun ideas instruction kind knowledge language Latin living Loeb Classical Library Lord matter Max Müller means ment method mind moral nature necessary never observed opinion parents perfect person Pestalozzi philosophy Plato pleasure Plutarch praise present prince principles pupil Quintilian Ratio Studiorum reason religion Scriptures sense shalt Socrates soul speak spirit Tatian taught teacher teaching thee things thou thought tion true truth ULICH understand unto Veda virtue whole wisdom wise words write young youth Yverdon