Philosophic Classics From Plato to Derrida

72 PLATO and the other to shoes, and not have the trouble of sharing things with others but do him- self, by himself, the things ...

As these absurdities follow, they think, from supposing quantity to be infinite, they conclude that corporeal substance must be ...

REPUBLIC(BOOKII) 73 “So our city will need more of the farmers and other craftsmen.” “More indeed.” “And in particular other cou ...

ETHICS(I, P17) 481 really but only modally. For example, we conceive water to be divisible and to have sep- arate parts insofar ...

74 PLATO by preparing cereal from barley and flour from wheat, baking the latter and shaping the for- mer by hand, and when they ...

nature—that is, which are within his power—should not come about; that is, they should not be produced by him. But this is as mu ...

REPUBLIC(BOOKII) 75 “And doubtless the land that was sufficient then to feed the people will now have gone from sufficient to sm ...

them both in respect of essence and existence. For that which is caused differs from its cause precisely in what it has from its ...

76 PLATO “So it would be our task, likely, if we’re going to be capable of it, to pick out which and which sort of natures are a ...

PROPOSITION 21:All things that follow from the absolute nature of any attribute of God must have existed always, and as infinite ...

REPUBLIC(BOOKII) 77 “Certainly I know it.” “Therefore,” I said, “this is possible, and it’s not against nature for the guardian ...

absolutely. Therefore, a mode which exists necessarily and as infinite must have fol- lowed from the absolute nature of some att ...

78 PLATO BOOKIII “Okay,” I said, “what would be the next thing after that for us to distinguish? Wouldn’t it be which of these ...

Proof: Whatever is determined to exist and to act has been so determined by God (Pr. 26 and Cor. Pr. 24). But that which is fini ...

REPUBLIC(BOOKIII) 79 “Now I’m not understanding again,” he said. “I guess I’m speaking like a tragedy,” I said. “By those who ar ...

ETHICS(I, P31) 487 be nor be conceived without their cause (Pr. 15 and Cor. Pr. 24). It follows, secondly, that God cannot prope ...

80 PLATO “Nothing new,” I said, “but something Phoenician*that has come into currency in many places before now, since the poets ...

conceived; and therefore (Sch. Pr. 29) it must be related to Natura naturata,not to Natura naturans,just like the other modes of ...

REPUBLIC(BOOKIII) 81 any of them were unwilling to obey the laws, and defend against those outside it if any enemy, like a wolf, ...

essence or definition involves a contradiction or because there is no external cause determined to bring it into existence. But ...