Philosophic Classics From Plato to Derrida

NICOMACHEANETHICS(BOOKX) 221 give them joy, and because of their nature, it is painful for them to feel neither [pleasure nor pa ...

THREEDIALOGUES(1) 631 HYLAS: To deal ingenuously, I do not like it. And, after the concessions already made, I had as well grant ...

222 ARISTOTLE nothing and is self-sufficient. Activities desirable in themselves are those from which we seek to derive nothing ...

632 GEORGEBERKELEY HYLAS: Right. PHILONOUS: Is the nearest and exactest survey made by the help of a microscope, or by the naked ...

NICOMACHEANETHICS(BOOKX) 223 gives us our notions of what is noble and divine; whether it is itself divine or the most divine th ...

THREEDIALOGUES(1) 633 happens upon viewing an object in various degrees of light. And what is more known than that the same bodi ...

224 ARISTOTLE exercise of the other, [i.e., practical,] kind of virtue. So if it is true that intelligence is divine in comparis ...

634 GEORGEBERKELEY HYLAS: I frankly own, Philonous, that it is in vain to stand out any longer. Colours, sounds, tastes, in a wo ...

NICOMACHEANETHICS(BOOKX) 225 A further indication that complete happiness consists in some kind of contempla- tive activity is t ...

THREEDIALOGUES(1) 635 PHILONOUS: Again, have you not acknowledged that no real inherent property of any object can be changed wi ...

226 ARISTOTLE A man whose activity is guided by intelligence, who cultivates his intelligence and keeps it in the best condition ...

636 GEORGEBERKELEY motions perceived are both really in the object) it is possible one and the same body shall be really moved t ...

Following the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C., three of his generals, Ptolemy, Seleucus, and Antigonus, carved up the e ...

altruism contributed to long-range pleasure. The Cyrenaic philosophy, with its understanding of the good life as enjoyment of st ...

THREEDIALOGUES(1) 637 HYLAS: I think so. PHILONOUS: These qualities, therefore, stripped of all sensible properties, are without ...

attracted the attention of even Alexander the Great, who, on visiting him, asked whether there was anything at all that he could ...

638 GEORGEBERKELEY PHILONOUS: Since therefore it is impossible even for the mind to disunite the ideas of extension and motion f ...

230 Like Pythagoras, Epicurus was born on the Greek island of Samos. At eighteen he went to Athens for a year, then joined his f ...

THREEDIALOGUES(1) 639 HYLAS:True. PHILONOUS: And this action cannot exist in, or belong to, any unthinking thing; but, whatever ...

INTRODUCTION 231 and give some sense of his psychology and theory of knowledge. Epicurus’s first letter,To Herodotus,explains hi ...