Philosophic Classics From Plato to Derrida

CORRESPONDENCE WITHPRINCESSELIZABETH 419 of a true [view of gravity], opposed [to this], which you promise us in your Physics; e ...

EUTHYPHRO 13 d e 8 b c SOCRATES: And should we not settle a question about the relative weight of two things by weighing them? E ...

420 RENÉDESCARTES I am half afraid that your Highness may think I am not speaking seriously here; but that would be contrary to ...

14 PLATO e 9 b c d EUTHYPHRO: No, indeed, that they do not. SOCRATES: Then it is not the case that there is nothing which they w ...

421 Born prematurely when his mother heard of the approach of the Spanish Armada, Thomas Hobbes often quipped that he was born “ ...

EUTHYPHRO 15 e 10 b c d EUTHYPHRO: Well, I should say that piety is what all the gods love, and that impi- ety is what they all ...

422 THOMASHOBBES In 1628, Hobbes published his first literary work: a translation of Thucydides, by which he hoped to use histor ...

16 PLATO 11 b c d e 12 EUTHYPHRO: Of course. SOCRATES: Then piety is not what is pleasing to the gods, and what is pleasing to t ...

INTRODUCTION 423 sovereign, as the sovereign is not a party to it. Hence there is no legal limitation on the sovereign’s power. ...

EUTHYPHRO 17 b c d e 13 SOCRATES: Yet you have the advantage over me in your youth no less than your wisdom. But, as I say, the ...

424 THOMASHOBBES LEVIATHAN OR THE MATTER, FORM, AND POWER OF A COMMONWEALTH, ECCLESIASTICAL AND CIVIL (in part) PARTI—OFMAN CHAP ...

18 PLATO b c d e SOCRATES: For I suppose that the skill that is concerned with horses is the art of taking care of horses. EUTHY ...

LEVIATHAN(I, 2) 425 The original of them all is that which we call “sense,” for there is no conception in a man’s mind which hat ...

EUTHYPHRO 19 14 b c d e 15 SOCRATES: So are those, my friend, which a general produces. Yet it is easy to see that the crowning ...

426 THOMASHOBBES other things, by themselves; and, because they find themselves subject after motion to pain and lassitude, thin ...

20 PLATO b c d e 16 SOCRATES: But what arethese gifts, Euthyphro, that we give the gods? EUTHYPHRO: What do you think but honor ...

LEVIATHAN(I, 2) 427 the impression leaves an image of the sun before our eyes a long time after; and, from being long and veheme ...

APOLOGY 21 17 b c d 18 b c APOLOGY Characters Socrates Meletus Scene—The Court of Justice SOCRATES: I do not know what impressio ...

428 THOMASHOBBES even they that be perfectly awake, if they be timorous and superstitious, possessed with fearful tales, and alo ...

22 PLATO 19 b c d e 20 the accusers whom I fear; for their hearers think that persons who pursue such inquiries never believe in ...