Philosophic Classics From Plato to Derrida

246 EPICTETUS [5] Do you have nothing, then, in place of the banquet? You have this—you have not had to praise the person you di ...

HANDBOOK(ENCHIRIDION) 247 ruling principle or external things, seek to improve things inside or things outside. That is, you mus ...

248 EPICTETUS diviner should happen to tell you that the omens are unfavourable, that death is foretold, or mutilation to some p ...

HANDBOOK(ENCHIRIDION) 249 Chapter 34: When you get an impression of some pleasure, as in the case of other impressions, guard ag ...

250 EPICTETUS he is your brother, that you were raised up together, and you will take hold of it using the handle by which it ma ...

HANDBOOK(ENCHIRIDION) 251 When I find someone to explain them, what remains is my putting his principles into prac- tice; this i ...

252 Pyrrho was born in the town of Elis on the Greek Peloponnesus. He joined the expedition of Alexander the Great to India and ...

OUTLINES OFPYRRHONISM 253 As for its impact, elements of Pyrrhoist skepticism are echoed in Hegel’s con- cept of the dialectic ( ...

254 PYRRHO ANDSEXTUSEMPIRICUS and the Stoics and certain others; Cleitomachus and Carneades and other Academics treat it as inap ...

Of the Principles of Scepticism. The originating cause of Scepticism is, we say, the hope of attaining quietude. Men of talent, ...

our School. For, as we said above, we do not overthrow the affective sense-impressions which induce our assent involuntarily; an ...

avoid losing the things which he deems good. On the other hand, the man who deter- mines nothing as to what is naturally good or ...

258 Plotinus was the most influential of the Neoplatonists. Born in Lykopolis, Egypt, in A.D. 204, he moved in his late twenties ...

life. His experiences of nonmaterial reality were so powerful that he said he was ashamed to have a body. Plotinus’ writings wer ...

260 PLOTINUS ENNEADS (in part) ENNEADI, TRACTATE6: BEAUTY Beauty is mostly in sight, but it is to be found too in things we hea ...

ENNEADS 261 well-proportioned in relation to each other? If it is because they agree, there can be concord and agreement between ...

262 PLOTINUS simple beauty of colour comes about by shape and the mastery of the darkness in matter by the presence of light whi ...

ENNEADS 263 That they exist as beauties. But the argument still requires us to explain why real beings make the soul lovable. Wh ...

264 PLOTINUS goodness, and ugliness and evil. And first we must posit beauty which is also the good; from this immediately comes ...

ENNEADS 265 higher world and are converted and strip off what we put on in our descent; (just as for those who go up to the cele ...