Philosophic Classics From Plato to Derrida

NICOMACHEANETHICS(BOOKI) 171 But we must add “in a complete life.” For one swallow does not make a spring, nor does one sunny da ...

INTRODUCTION 581 for the will it suffices that this reason should incline without necessitating.” Of course, he also claims that ...

172 ARISTOTLE wisdom, others that it is some kind of theoretical wisdom; others again believe it to be all or some of these acco ...

582 GOTTFRIEDLEIBNIZ Gottfried Leibniz, Discourse on Metaphysics and Related Writings, edited and translated with an introductio ...

NICOMACHEANETHICS(BOOKI) 173 actions can only be performed with the help of instruments, as it were: friends, wealth, and politi ...

DISCOURSE ONMETAPHYSICS 583 the way the Spinozists think of goodness and harmony. Their opinion is that the beauty of the univer ...

174 ARISTOTLE happy after he is dead? Is this not simply absurd, especially for us who define happiness as a kind of activity? S ...

584 GOTTFRIEDLEIBNIZ LOVINGGODDEMANDSCOMPLETESATISFACTION WITH ANDACQUIESCENCE IN WHATHEDOES, BUTWEDONOT, ON THATACCOUNT, HAV E ...

NICOMACHEANETHICS(BOOKI) 175 If, as we said, the activities determine a man’s life, no supremely happy man can ever become miser ...

DISCOURSE ONMETAPHYSICS 585 As for the simplicity of God’s ways, that applies properly in respect of means whereas the variety, ...

176 ARISTOTLE man, a swift runner, and so forth, because he possesses a certain natural quality and stands in a certain relation ...

586 GOTTFRIEDLEIBNIZ As for the general and particular wills, depending on how we take the matter, it can be said that God does ...

NICOMACHEANETHICS(BOOKI) 177 though in reality indivisible, as convex and concave are in the circumference of a circle, is irrel ...

DISCOURSE ONMETAPHYSICS 587 not sufficiently determinate for one individual, and does not include the other qualities of the sam ...

178 ARISTOTLE BOOKII Moral Virtue as the Result of Habits:Virtue, as we have seen, consists of two- kinds, intellectual virtue ...

588 GOTTFRIEDLEIBNIZ of them praiseworthy for their sanctity, had some knowledge of what we have just said. This is what led the ...

NICOMACHEANETHICS(BOOKII) 179 inquiry in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, else there would be no advan ...

DISCOURSE ONMETAPHYSICS 589 clarify and digest their thoughts in the manner of analytical geometry, he would find a treasure sto ...

180 ARISTOTLE Furthermore, since the virtues have to do with actions and emotions, and since pleasure and pain are a consequence ...

590 GOTTFRIEDLEIBNIZ some conclusion can be infallibly deduced from a definition or notion, it will be nec- essary. Now in fact ...