Philosophic Classics From Plato to Derrida

52 PLATO c d e 79 b Yes, I will: why not? Very good, he replied. Well, said Socrates, must we not ask ourselves this question? W ...

460 THOMASHOBBES repugnancy between such a liberty and the sovereign power; and therefore the sovereignty is still retained; and ...

PHAEDO 53 c d e 80 Then the soul is more like the invisible than the body; and the body is like the visible. That is necessarily ...

461 Blaise Pascal was the middle child of an upper-class magistrate in Clermont- Ferrand, France. His mother died when he was 3 ...

54 PLATO b c d e 82 called the unseen world, to dwell with the good and wise God, whither, if it be the will of God, my soul too ...

462 BLAISEPASCAL under the influence of the Jansenists, a group of devout Catholics, Pascal still found himself without directio ...

PHAEDO 55 b c d Certainly, he replied, that is so. And of these, he said, the happiest, who go to the best place, are those who ...

INTRODUCTION 463 there, then, no rational basis for making the Christian commitment? In the selection given here, Pascal appeals ...

56 PLATO 114 e 115 b c d e 116 b c d ...A man should be of good cheer about his soul if in his life he has renounced the pleasur ...

464 BLAISEPASCAL PENSÉES (selections) The conduct of God, who disposes all things kindly, is to put religion into the mind by r ...

PHAEDO 57 e 117 know are to blame. And so farewell, and try to bear what must be as lightly as you can; you know why I have come ...

PENSÉES 465 faith. But, seeing too much to deny and too little to be sure, I am in a state to be pitied; wherefore I have a hund ...

58 PLATO d e 118 man with that fixed glance of his, and asked, What say you to making a libation from this draught? May I, or no ...

466 BLAISEPASCAL He is.— “That is very fine. Yes, I must wager; but I may perhaps wager too much.”—Let us see. Since there is an ...

REPUBLIC(BOOKI) 59 Plato,Republic(Book I, 336b–342e, 347b–e; Book II, 357a–362c, 368a–376e; Book III, 412b–417b; Book IV, 427c–4 ...

PENSÉES 467 those in whom this light is extinguished, and in whom we purpose to rekindle it, persons destitute of faith and grac ...

60 PLATO And I was flabbergasted when I heard this, and was afraid as I looked at him, and it seemed to me that if I had not see ...

468 BLAISEPASCAL Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe need not ar ...

REPUBLIC(BOOKI) 61 about these things, would be banned from saying what he believes by no inconsiderable man? So it’s more like ...

PENSÉES 469 Who will unravel this tangle? Nature confutes the skeptics, and reason confutes the dogmatists. What then will you b ...