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Distinction and the Criticism of Beliefs
By Alfred Sidgwick, an “unjustly neglected thinker.” (Jacques Barzun)
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New at IWP Books: Alfred Sidgwick, 1892, Distinction and the Criticism of Beliefs. “In all those cases where ideals are brought into conflict it is the old rivalry between the abstract and the concrete meaning, the ideal and the actual, that chiefly keeps the dispute alive.…Read the post →
Impatient Dogmatism
New at IWP Books: Alfred Sidgwick, 1892, Distinction and the Criticism of Beliefs. “There was a time, which ended some twenty years ago, when most…
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