Philosophic Classics From Plato to Derrida

SIXTHMEDITATION 409 corporeal things. So the difference between this mode of thinking and pure understand- ing may simply be thi ...

3 Socrates has fascinated and inspired men and women for over two thousand years. All five of the major “schools” of ancient Gre ...

410 RENÉDESCARTES 76 77 78 part, made up of elements of sensory ideas. In this way I easily convinced myself that I had nothing ...

4 PLATO of the incident, he was confused. He knew that he was not a wise man. So he set out to find a wiser man to prove the ans ...

SIXTHMEDITATION 411 make me certain that the two things are distinct, since they are capable of being separated, at least by God ...

INTRODUCTION 5 Following Socrates’ execution, the twenty-eight-year-old Plato left Athens and traveled for a time. He is reporte ...

412 RENÉDESCARTES 81 82 What of the other aspects of corporeal things which are either particular (for example that the sun is o ...

6 PLATO There are few books in Western civilization that have had the impact of Plato’s Republic—aside from the Bible, perhaps n ...

SIXTHMEDITATION 413 83 of these matters. It also includes much that relates to the body alone, like the tendency to move in a do ...

INTRODUCTION 7 Brumbaugh,Plato for a Modern Age(New York: Macmillan, 1964); I.M. Crombie,An Examination of Plato’s Doctrines,two ...

414 RENÉDESCARTES 85 86 body to take a drink, with the result that the disease will be aggravated. Yet this is just as natural a ...

8 PLATO 2 b c d 3 b PlatoEuthyphro, F.J. Church ( /Library of the Liberal Arts, 19 ). EUTHYPHRO Characters Socrates Euthyphro Sc ...

SIXTHMEDITATION 415 pull on inner parts of the brain to which they are attached, and produce a certain motion in them; and natur ...

EUTHYPHRO 9 c The Acropolis and the Parthenon a.The Parthenon, Athens, built 477–438 B.C. The Parthenon, dedicated to Athena, pa ...

416 RENÉDESCARTES 89 90 brain, or in the foot, or in any of the intermediate regions; or it might have indicated something else ...

10 PLATO 4 b c d e without payment. Indeed, if I could I would gladly pay people myself to listen to me. If then, as I said just ...

CORRESPONDENCE WITHPRINCESSELIZABETH 417 CORRESPONDENCE WITH PRINCESS ELIZABETH (selections) 1.a. Princess Elizabeth to Descarte ...

EUTHYPHRO 11 5 b c d e 6 b c EUTHYPHRO: If I did not understand all these matters accurately, Socrates, I should not be worth mu ...

418 RENÉDESCARTES regards the soul taken by itself, we have merely the notion of consciousness, which comprises the conceptions ...

12 PLATO e 7 b c Acropolis at the great Panathenaic festival? Are we to say that these things are true, Euthyphro? EUTHYPHRO: Ye ...