Philosophic Classics From Plato to Derrida

THESOCIALCONTRACT 771 over ourselves, we gain the equivalent of all that we lose, and more power to preserve what we have. If, t ...

THESECONDSEX 1181 But proletarians have not always existed, whereas there have always been women. They are women in virtue of th ...

772 JEAN-JACQUESROUSSEAU injure all its members; and we shall see hereafter that it can injure no one as an individual. The sove ...

1182 SIMONE DEBEAUVOIR Migrant Mother, 1936, by Dorothea Lange (1895–1965). This powerful photograph of a migrant mother in cent ...

THESECONDSEX 1183 hope and fear, is quite conscious of the need he has for his master. Even if the need is at bottom equally urg ...

THESOCIALCONTRACT 773 property that he possesses forms part. By this act, possession does not change its nature when it changes ...

1184 SIMONE DEBEAUVOIR free, not enslaved; the second, a man, not a woman. But the males could not enjoy this privilege fully un ...

774 JEAN-JACQUESROUSSEAU the members of the State, as well as maintained by all its power against foreigners, they have, as it w ...

THESECONDSEX 1185 “the Jewish character.” True, the Jewish problem is on the whole very different from the other two—to the anti ...

775 Whereas most modern philosophers (such as Descartes, Berkeley, and Hume) arrived at their basic philosophical positions earl ...

1186 SIMONE DEBEAUVOIR inferiority complex, and indeed no one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than t ...

Following his university studies, Kant worked as a private tutor to wealthy families. By 1755, he was back in the university, wh ...

THESECONDSEX 1187 “quarrel”; and when quarreling one no longer reasons well. People have tirelessly sought to prove that woman i ...

“shape” of the world outside the mind. Kant argued instead that objects conform to the mind: that how one experiences the world ...

1188 SIMONE DEBEAUVOIR benefit of society as one wishes it to be maintained or established. For our part, we hold that the only ...

Kant’s condensation of the Critique, the Prolegomena to Any Future Meta- physics, his Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals,a ...

1189 Willard Van Orman Quine was the youngest of the sons born to Robert Quine and Harriet Van Orman Quine of Akron, Ohio. His m ...

PROLEGOMENA TOANYFUTUREMETAPHYSICS 779 PROLEGOMENA TO ANY FUTURE METAPHYSICS INTRODUCTION These Prolegomenaare for the use, not ...

Quine taught at Harvard until 1942. During World War II, his skill in languages and his gift for logic were put to use translati ...

780 IMMANUELKANT 257 258 jewel; hence he who raises the doubt must expect opposition from all sides. Some, in the proud consciou ...