Experience
Knowledge or skill gained from the senses, practice and what has happened to us.
Works to read
- Experience and Education by John Dewey, 1938 · Great Books
- Songs of Innocence and of Experience by William Blake, 1789–1794
- The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James, 1902
- Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant, 1781 (revised 1787) · Great Books
- A History of Philosophy, Vol. V: Hobbes to Hume by Frederick Copleston, 1959
- Hippocratic Writings by Hippocrates, c. 5th–4th century BCE · Great Books
- On Generation and Corruption by Aristotle, c. 350 BC · Great Books
- Meteorology by Aristotle, c. 340 BC · Great Books
- Generation of Animals by Aristotle, c. 350-322 BC · Great Books
- On the Magnet (De Magnete) by William Gilbert, 1600 · Great Books
- Galileo: The Starry Messenger, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina, and Two New Sciences (First Day) by Galileo Galilei, 1610-1638 · Great Books
- Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences (Second to Fourth Days) by Galileo Galilei, 1638 · Great Books
Passages
From the texts
The same distinction between reason and experience is maintained in all our deliberations concerning the conduct of life; while the experienced statesman, general, physician, or merchant is trusted and followed; and the unpractised novice, with whatever natural talents endowed, neglected and despised.
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Now from memory experience is produced in men; for the several memories of the same thing produce finally the capacity for a single experience.
— Aristotle, Metaphysics
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