Philosophic Classics From Plato to Derrida

670 GEORGEBERKELEY use a microscope the better to discover the true nature of a body, if it were discoverable to the naked eye? ...

262 PLOTINUS simple beauty of colour comes about by shape and the mastery of the darkness in matter by the presence of light whi ...

THREEDIALOGUES(3) 671 unknown natures or substances, admit with the vulgar those for real things which are perceived by the sens ...

ENNEADS 263 That they exist as beauties. But the argument still requires us to explain why real beings make the soul lovable. Wh ...

672 GEORGEBERKELEY is exactly the same as to the point in hand. For the materialists themselves acknowledge what we immediately ...

264 PLOTINUS goodness, and ugliness and evil. And first we must posit beauty which is also the good; from this immediately comes ...

THREEDIALOGUES(3) 673 bodies are said to exist in a place, or a seal to make an impression upon wax. My meaning is only that the ...

ENNEADS 265 higher world and are converted and strip off what we put on in our descent; (just as for those who go up to the cele ...

674 GEORGEBERKELEY I do. Since, besides spirits, all you conceive are ideas; and the existence of these I do not deny. Neither d ...

266 PLOTINUS And what does this inner sight see? When it is just awakened it is not at all able to look at the brilliance befor ...

THREEDIALOGUES(3) 675 HYLAS: This I acknowledge. PHILONOUS: By your own confession, therefore, nothing is new, or begins to be, ...

With only a few exceptions, European medieval thought was deeply imbued with Christian faith. As a result, it is not possible to ...

676 GEORGEBERKELEY that score: or you are able to conceive it; and, if so, why not on my principles, since thereby nothing conce ...

relation to several of Israel’s most venerable institutions—for example, Sabbath observances, the Temple, and ritual purity—whil ...

THREEDIALOGUES(3) 677 substance, which hath an absolute existence without the minds of spirits, should be pro- duced out of noth ...

The first issue, the nature of Christ, was resolved at the Council of Nicea, con- vened and presided over by the first Christian ...

678 GEORGEBERKELEY principle of individuation, possibility of matter’s thinking, origin of ideas, the manner how two independent ...

France—the so-called Babylonian Captivity of the Church. Beginning in 1347, the bubonic plague, or Black Death, struck Western E ...

THREEDIALOGUES(3) 679 HYLAS: You have satisfied me, Philonous. PHILONOUS: But, to arm you against all future objections, do but ...

in the Roman World(London: Thames & Hudson, 1974). For a discussion of Christian beliefs in their historical context, see J. ...