Philosophic Classics From Plato to Derrida

82 PLATO “And in this way they’d keep themselves and the city safe. But whenever they possess private land and houses and curren ...

had a different intellect in act and a different will, his essence too would necessarily have been different. Therefore—as I ded ...

REPUBLIC(BOOKIV) 83 “Well then, the first thing that seems to me to be clearly visible in it is wisdom. And there seems to be so ...

him that they can neither be nor be conceived without him, and lastly, that all things have been predetermined by God, not from ...

84 PLATO “But as for courage, it and the part of the city it lies in, and through which the city is called courageous, are surel ...

man strove most earnestly to understand and to explain the final causes of all things. But in seeking to show that Nature does n ...

REPUBLIC(BOOKIV) 85 if you want, because what we’ve been looking for now is not that but justice. For the inquiry about that, I ...

the roof on somebody’s head and kills him, by this method of arguing they will prove that the stone fell in order to kill the ma ...

86 PLATO “I do,” he said. “So if one ought to refer to any city as stronger than pleasures and desires, and than itself, that ne ...

But I have devoted enough time to this. Other notions, too, are nothing but modes of imagining whereby the imagination is affect ...

REPUBLIC(BOOKIV) 87 holding, we too weren’t looking at the thing itself but were gazing off into the distance somewhere, which i ...

PARTII OF THENATURE ANDORIGIN OF THEMIND I now pass on to the explication of those things that must necessarily have followed fr ...

88 PLATO “Because it’s the just thing?” “Yes.” “Then in this respect too, having and doing what’s properly one’s own would be ag ...

Man thinks. Modes of thinking such as love, desire, or whatever emotions are designated by name, do not occur unless there is i ...

REPUBLIC(BOOKIV) 89 “But the city seemed to be just because each of the three classes of natures present in it did what properly ...

nobody will rightly apprehend what I am trying to say unless he takes great care not to confuse God’s power with a king’s human ...

90 PLATO “Say it,” he said. “Does the same thing have the power to stand still and move,” I said, “at the same time in the same ...

thinking substance and extended substance are one and the same substance, compre- hended now under this attribute, now under tha ...

REPUBLIC(BOOKIV) 91 “We’re going to claim that,” he said. “And the one is for drink, the other for food?” “Yes.” “Now to the ext ...

ETHICS(II, P10) 499 Now indeed their ideas also exist not only insofar as they are merely comprehended in the idea of the circle ...