Philosophic Classics From Plato to Derrida

THIRDMEDITATION 399 Nor can it be supposed that several partial causes contributed to my creation, or that I received the idea o ...

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400 RENÉDESCARTES 53 54 FOURTHMEDITATION Truth and falsity During these past few days I have accustomed myself to leading my min ...

viii CONTENTS ARISTOTLE Physics(Book II, complete) Metaphysics(Book I, 1–4, 6, 9; and Book XII, 6–9) On the Soul(Book II, Chapt ...

FOURTHMEDITATION 401 But this is still not entirely satisfactory. For error is not a pure negation, but rather 55 a privation or ...

Preface There is no better introduction to philosophy than to read some of the great philoso- phers. But few books are more diff ...

402 RENÉDESCARTES 58 59 memory or imagination, or any others, I discover that in my case each one of these fac- ulties is weak a ...

the life), (2) philosophical (a resume of the philosopher’s thought), and (3) bibliographical (suggestions for further reading). ...

FOURTHMEDITATION 403 sufficiently clear knowledge at the time when the will deliberates. For although proba- ble conjectures may ...

Corliss Slack and John Yoder, who provided historical context; Stephen Davis, Claremont McKenna College; Jerry H. Gill, The Coll ...

404 RENÉDESCARTES 62 63 64 error, while others are immune, than there would be if all the parts were exactly alike. And I have n ...

Philosophers in this Volume 400 B.C. 200 B.C.0 A.D. 200 400 600 800 1000 Plato ARISTOTLE Pyrrho Epicurus Epictetus Sextus Empiri ...

FIFTHMEDITATION 405 discovering them it seems that I am not so much learning something new as remember- ing what I knew before; ...

1200 1400 1600 1800 2000 Hildegard of Bingen John Stuart Mill Moses Maimonides Søren Kierkegaard Thomas Aquinas Karl Marx Willia ...

406 RENÉDESCARTES 67 68 However, even granted that I cannot think of God except as existing, just as I cannot think of a mountai ...

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FIFTHMEDITATION 407 69 have been discovered, the latter are judged to be just as certain as the former. In the case of a right-a ...

Something unusual happened in Greece and in the Greek colonies of the Aegean Sea some twenty-five hundred years ago. Whereas the ...

408 RENÉDESCARTES 72 73 Thus I see plainly that the certainty and truth of all knowledge depends uniquely on my knowledge of the ...

believed that human knowledge was capable of understanding virtually every- thing about the world and the self, whereas others t ...