Philosophic Classics From Plato to Derrida

660 GEORGEBERKELEY HYLAS: That is the very top and perfection of human knowledge. PHILONOUS: But are you all this while in earne ...

252 Pyrrho was born in the town of Elis on the Greek Peloponnesus. He joined the expedition of Alexander the Great to India and ...

THREEDIALOGUES(3) 661 to me a plain contradiction; since I cannot prescind or abstract, even in thought, the existence of a sens ...

OUTLINES OFPYRRHONISM 253 As for its impact, elements of Pyrrhoist skepticism are echoed in Hegel’s con- cept of the dialectic ( ...

662 GEORGEBERKELEY taking the word ideain a large sense, my soul may be said to furnish me with an idea, that is, an image or li ...

254 PYRRHO ANDSEXTUSEMPIRICUS and the Stoics and certain others; Cleitomachus and Carneades and other Academics treat it as inap ...

THREEDIALOGUES(3) 663 HYLAS: Notwithstanding all you have said, to me it seems that, according to your own way of thinking, and ...

Of the Principles of Scepticism. The originating cause of Scepticism is, we say, the hope of attaining quietude. Men of talent, ...

664 GEORGEBERKELEY PHILONOUS: The ideas formed by the imagination are faint and indistinct; they have, besides, an entire depend ...

our School. For, as we said above, we do not overthrow the affective sense-impressions which induce our assent involuntarily; an ...

THREEDIALOGUES(3) 665 act be the very same with that in the case of murder. Since therefore, sin does not consist in the physica ...

avoid losing the things which he deems good. On the other hand, the man who deter- mines nothing as to what is naturally good or ...

666 GEORGEBERKELEY to be connected with those immediately perceived: or, concerning the ideas that, from what he perceives at pr ...

258 Plotinus was the most influential of the Neoplatonists. Born in Lykopolis, Egypt, in A.D. 204, he moved in his late twenties ...

THREEDIALOGUES(3) 667 HYLAS: And now I warrant you think you have made the point very clear, little suspecting that what you adv ...

life. His experiences of nonmaterial reality were so powerful that he said he was ashamed to have a body. Plotinus’ writings wer ...

668 GEORGEBERKELEY PHILONOUS: You lay it down as a self-evident principle that the quantity of motion in any body is proportiona ...

260 PLOTINUS ENNEADS (in part) ENNEADI, TRACTATE6: BEAUTY Beauty is mostly in sight, but it is to be found too in things we hea ...

THREEDIALOGUES(3) 669 except a few philosophers, who do not know what they would be at? Your question sup- poses these points ar ...

ENNEADS 261 well-proportioned in relation to each other? If it is because they agree, there can be concord and agreement between ...