Philosophic Classics From Plato to Derrida

NICOMACHEANETHICS(BOOKVI) 201 practical wisdom makes us use the right means. The fourth part of the soul, the nutri- tive, does ...

THEMONADOLOGY 611 In consequence of what has been said, the natural changes of the monads must result from an internal principl ...

202 ARISTOTLE That is why some people maintain that all the virtues are forms of practical wisdom, and why Socrates’ approach to ...

612 GOTTFRIEDLEIBNIZ dreamless sleep. In this state the soul is not noticeably different from a simple monad. However, since thi ...

NICOMACHEANETHICS(BOOKVII) 203 sites of two of these are obvious: one is called virtue or excellence and the other moral strengt ...

THEMONADOLOGY 613 Our reasoning is founded on two great principles: The first is the principle of contradiction, by virtue of w ...

204 ARISTOTLE Problems in the Current Beliefs About Moral Strength and Moral Weakness: The problems we might raise are these. [ ...

614 GOTTFRIEDLEIBNIZ they depend, and without him there would not be anything real in the possibles; that is, without him there ...

NICOMACHEANETHICS(BOOKVII) 205 resolution which Odysseus had persuaded him to adopt, because it gives him pain to tell a lie. Fu ...

THEMONADOLOGY 615 Now, since in the divine ideas there is an infinity of possible universes of which only one can exist, the ch ...

206 ARISTOTLE involved. Nor is he morally weak because of the mere fact of his relationship to these situations, [namely, that h ...

616 GOTTFRIEDLEIBNIZ Thus, every created monad represents the whole universe; nevertheless, it represents more distinctly the b ...

NICOMACHEANETHICS(BOOKVII) 207 drunk. But this is precisely the condition of people who are in the grip of the emotions. Fits of ...

THEMONADOLOGY 617 This also proves that, strictly speaking, there never is either complete genera- tion or perfect death, which ...

208 ARISTOTLE reasoning is not a universal and does not seem to be an object of scientific knowledge in the same way that a univ ...

618 GOTTFRIEDLEIBNIZ Among other differences existing between ordinary souls and spirits, some of which I have already pointed ...

NICOMACHEANETHICS(BOOKVII) 209 and pains but not in the same way. Self-indulgent men pursue the excess by choice, but the morall ...

619 George Berkeley was born near Kilkenny, Ireland, and, although an Anglican of English descent, he emphatically considered hi ...

210 ARISTOTLE 25 30 *Phalaris, tyrant of Acragas in the second quarter of the sixth century B.C., was said to have built a hollo ...

620 GEORGEBERKELEY where another son was beginning his studies. On January 14, 1753, Berkeley died suddenly; he was buried at Ch ...