Philosophic Classics From Plato to Derrida

FEAR ANDTREMBLING 973 for that distinction is only a very imperfect expression of the distance of spirit. I require every person ...

974 SØRENKIERKEGAARD mean deception whereby we deceive ourselves and others. I do not feel brave enough to wish to be contempora ...

CONCLUDINGUNSCIENTIFICPOSTSCRIPT 975 Let us take the knowledge of God as an example. Objectively, what is reflected upon is that ...

976 SØRENKIERKEGAARD God although he is worshiping an idol; the other prays in untruth to the true God and is therefore in truth ...

CONCLUDINGUNSCIENTIFICPOSTSCRIPT 977 infinite, not its content, is the deciding factor, for its content is precisely itself. In ...

978 SØRENKIERKEGAARD essentially to what it means to exist (viewed Socratically, all other knowledge is acci- dental, its degree ...

CONCLUDINGUNSCIENTIFICPOSTSCRIPT 979 The great merit of the Socratic was precisely to emphasize that the knower is an existing p ...

980 SØRENKIERKEGAARD take himself out of existence, the more inward his existing can become in existence; and when it is made im ...

CONCLUDINGUNSCIENTIFICPOSTSCRIPT 981 What, then, is the absurd? The absurd is that the eternal truth has come into existence in ...

982 SØRENKIERKEGAARD obtaining certainty about something altogether different. One hundred thousand individual witnesses, who by ...

983 It is hard to think of a more influential—or more controversial—nineteenth- century thinker than Karl Marx. Not content simp ...

984 KARLMARX time, Marx received a sizable settlement from the shareholders of the Rheinishe Zeitung,and he and his new bride we ...

INTRODUCTION 985 Although Marx accepted Hegel’s dialectical understanding of history, he became convinced that Hegel’s philosoph ...

986 KARLMARX and Anarchy.Our final selection from Marx presents a portion of Bakunin’s criticism, along with Marx’s response. I ...

ECONOMIC ANDPHILOSOPHICMANUSCRIPTS OF 1844 987 miserable commodity; that the misery of the worker is inversely proportional to t ...

988 KARLMARX So much does the realization of labor appear as diminution that the worker is diminished to the point of starvation ...

ECONOMIC ANDPHILOSOPHICMANUSCRIPTS OF 1844 989 labor and turns others into machines. It produces intelligence, but for the worke ...

990 KARLMARX his flesh and ruins his mind. The worker, therefore feels at ease only outside work, and during work he is outside ...

ECONOMIC ANDPHILOSOPHICMANUSCRIPTS OF 1844 991 species-lifethe means of individual life. In the first place it alienates species ...

992 KARLMARX In general, the statement that man is alienated from his species-existence means that one man is alienated from ano ...