Philosophic Classics From Plato to Derrida

NICOMACHEANETHICS(BOOKVI) 191 Small-mindedness is more opposed to high-mindedness than vanity is, for it occurs more frequently ...

DISCOURSE ONMETAPHYSICS 601 was could doubt the possibility of such a line, though indeed it was a reciprocal prop- erty of an e ...

192 ARISTOTLE action.* What affirmation and negation are in the realm of thought, pursuit and avoid- ance are in the realm of de ...

602 GOTTFRIEDLEIBNIZ That is what Plato understood so well when he put forward his doctrine of reminis- cence, which is very sou ...

NICOMACHEANETHICS(BOOKVI) 193 or not they continue to be true when removed from our observation. Therefore, an object of scienti ...

DISCOURSE ONMETAPHYSICS 603 of the essence, thought and will of God and of all the ideas included in Him. Hence, it can be said ...

194 ARISTOTLE an applied science or art. It follows that, in general, a man of practical wisdom is he who has the ability to del ...

604 GOTTFRIEDLEIBNIZ towards the apparent good, and so express or imitate God’s will in certain particular respects in respect o ...

NICOMACHEANETHICS(BOOKVI) 195 object either of science, of art, or of practical wisdom. For what is known scientifically is demo ...

DISCOURSE ONMETAPHYSICS 605 and that is reserved to the absolutely efficacious grace alone that is always victorious whether by ...

196 ARISTOTLE theoretical but not practical wisdom: when we see that they do not know what is advan- tageous to them, we admit t ...

606 GOTTFRIEDLEIBNIZ and the manifestation of His justice reduce, as well as His mercy and His perfections generally, and finall ...

NICOMACHEANETHICS(BOOKVI) 197 his own interests is regarded as a man of practical wisdom, while men whose concern is politics ar ...

DISCOURSE ONMETAPHYSICS 607 nature, and just so, that they answer of themselves to what happens in the whole uni- verse, though ...

198 ARISTOTLE deliberates he is engaged in investigating and calculating [things not yet decided]. Nor yet is it shrewd guessing ...

608 GOTTFRIEDLEIBNIZ THEEXCELLENCE OFMINDS. GODCONSIDERSTHEM IN PREFERENCE TOOTHERCREATURES. MINDSEXPRESSGOD RATHERTHAN THEWORL ...

NICOMACHEANETHICS(BOOKVI) 199 medicine, for example, is the science of matters pertaining to health, or geometry the sci- ence w ...

DISCOURSE ONMETAPHYSICS 609 thing to exist in preference to others. Hence God’s quality of being Himself a mind precedes all oth ...

200 ARISTOTLE That is why these characteristics are regarded as natural endowments and, although no one is provided with theoret ...

610 GOTTFRIEDLEIBNIZ the revolutions of the universe, since nothing can act on them but God alone; that none of our actions is f ...