Philosophic Classics From Plato to Derrida

62 PLATO just is something advantageous, but you’re making an addition and claiming it to be that of the stronger, while I don’t ...

470 Except for Socrates himself, it would be difficult to find a philosopher who was a more highly regarded person than Benedict ...

REPUBLIC(BOOKI) 63 “It makes no difference, Polemarchus,” I said, “but if Thrasymachus says it this way now, let’s accept it thi ...

War (1618–1648), he proposed that religion and truth be separated altogether. This separation, he believed, would be the best sa ...

64 PLATO “And what about a helmsman? Is the one who’s a helmsman in the correct way a ruler of sailors or a sailor?” “A ruler of ...

Scraton,Spinoza(London: Routledge, 1999); Steven Nadler,Spinoza: A Life (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999); and Micha ...

REPUBLIC(BOOKI) 65 “Then no sort of knowledge considers or commands what’s advantageous for the stronger, but what’s advantageou ...

ETHICS(I, AXIOMS) 473 because we can always conceive of another body greater than it. So, too, a thought is limited by another t ...

66 PLATO BOOKII Now when I said these things, I imagined I’d be released from discussion, but as it seems, it was just a prologu ...

PROPOSITION 1:Substance is by nature prior to its affections. Proof: This is evident from Defs. 3 and 5. PROPOSITION 2:Two subst ...

REPUBLIC(BOOKII) 67 injustice, from anyone in the way I want it. I want to hear it itself by itself praised, and I assume that I ...

PROPOSITION 8:Every substance is necessarily infinite. Proof: There cannot be more than one substance having the same attribute ...

68 PLATO he tried out whether the ring had this power in it, and it turned out that way for him, to become invisible when he twi ...

The cause for the existence of a thing must either be contained in the very nature and definition of the existent thing (in eff ...

REPUBLIC(BOOKII) 69 made to be situated in a way opposite to the one before, for while he does nothing unjust, let him have a re ...

Proof: If you deny this, conceive, if you can, that God does not exist. Therefore (Ax. 7), his essence does not involve existenc ...

70 PLATO my argument stand. But neither is there any way for me not to help out, since I’m afraid that it would be irreverent to ...

For whether they consist of many parts or few, things that are brought about by external causes owe whatever degree of perfectio ...

REPUBLIC(BOOKII) 71 Ostrakafrom 428B.C., found on the north side of the Acropolis. These clay disks were used in ostracism votin ...

Corollary 2: It follows that the thing extended and the thing thinking are either attributes of God or (Ax. 1) affections of the ...