Philosophic Classics From Plato to Derrida

102 PLATO able to examine something that’s being said by making distinctions according to forms, but pounce on the contradiction ...

Scholium: The idea that constitutes the nature of the human mind is likewise shown, when considered solely in itself, not to be ...

REPUBLIC(BOOKV) 103 easily, the other with difficulty? And that the one, on the basis of a brief study, would be apt to discover ...

shown in the preceding Proposition that from this common property of particular things we can have only a very inadequate knowle ...

104 PLATO “Quite so.” “So are we going to assign all of them to men and none to women?” “Really, how could we?” “But we’ll claim ...

PROPOSITION 36:Inadequate and confused ideas follow by the same necessity as adequate, or clear and distinct, ideas. Proof: All ...

REPUBLIC(BOOKV) 105 “Then in the city we’ve been founding, which do you imagine would turn out as better men, the guardians, whe ...

mind; that is, insofar as he has the ideas which are in the human mind. Therefore, the mind (Cor. Pr. 11, II) necessarily percei ...

106 PLATO “You’re talking about a unified front among arguments,” I said, “and here I was imagining I could run away from one of ...

(I have explained in Sch. Pr. 17, II what an image is.) If this number be exceeded, these images begin to be confused, and if th ...

REPUBLIC(BOOKV) 107 “Then do you breed from all of them alike, or are you eager to breed as much as possible from the best ones? ...

ETHICS(II, P43) 515 adequate knowledge of the essence of things. I shall illustrate all these kinds of knowledge by one single e ...

108 PLATO “And won’t the officials set up for this purpose take over the offspring born on each occasion, male or female officia ...

what standard of truth can there be that is clearer and more certain than a true idea? Indeed, just as light makes manifest both ...

REPUBLIC(BOOKV) 109 “There’s no way,” I said. “But from that day on which any of them becomes a bridegroom, whatever offspring a ...

For we are supposing that he has seen only one of them in the evening, not both at the same time. Therefore, his imagination wil ...

110 PLATO “It’s the same,” he said, “and as for what you’re asking, the best constituted city is the one situated closest to suc ...

Scholium: Hence we see that God’s infinite essence and his eternity are known to all. Now since all things are in God and are co ...

REPUBLIC(BOOKVI) 111 the instituting of the rulers, even though I knew that the complete truth would be offensive and a hard thi ...

PROPOSITION 49:There is in the mind no volition, that is, affirmation and negation, except that which an idea, insofar as it is ...