Philosophic Classics From Plato to Derrida

680 GEORGEBERKELEY sensible, substance, body, stuff,and the like, are retained, the word mattershould be never missed in common ...

272 Aurelius Augustinus, Saint Augustine, was born of a Christian mother and a pagan father in Thagaste, a small town in what is ...

681 David Hume was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1711. His father, a lawyer, died before David was 2 years old. He was raised ...

INTRODUCTION 273 his life of self-gratification. In 386, while sitting in a friend’s garden, he heard what he thought was a chil ...

682 DAVIDHUME argument from design, which he had left out of the earlier work, and he omitted many of his psychological speculat ...

274 AUGUSTINE Of Augustine’s many other works,The City of Godis by far the most influen- tial. During the fourth century, Christ ...

INTRODUTION 683 the food, hearing the bell, getting the food, hearing the bell...and after a period of time concluding, “bells c ...

CONFESSIONS(BOOKVIII) 275 Theory of Knowledge (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1969); R.A. Markus,Saeculum: History and ...

684 DAVIDHUME Understanding:A Reader’s Guide(London: Continuum, 2006) for epistemology and philosophy of mind; Jonathan Harrison ...

276 AUGUSTINE because they have taken the lead, yet not ashamed of lacking the courage even to follow?” Some such words as these ...

ANENQUIRYCONCERNINGHUMANUNDERSTANDING(SECTIONI) 685 bend our hearts to the love of probity and true honour, they think, that the ...

CONFESSIONS(BOOKVIII) 277 Evidently, then, it does not want this thing with the whole of itself, and therefore the command does ...

686 DAVIDHUME genius in an age and nation where the sciences flourish, than to be entirely destitute of all relish for those nob ...

278 AUGUSTINE good will that leads a person to our church, just as good as that which leads to theirs the people who are initiat ...

ANENQUIRYCONCERNINGHUMANUNDERSTANDING(SECTIONI) 687 graceful and engaging airs; he must still carry his attention to the inward ...

CONFESSIONS(BOOKVIII) 279 of flesh and murmuring in my ear, “Do you mean to get rid of us? Shall we never be your companions aga ...

688 DAVIDHUME new prospect, ought so far to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind. And though these researches may appear painful ...

280 AUGUSTINE I went on talking like this and weeping in the intense bitterness of my broken heart. Suddenly I heard a voice fr ...

ANENQUIRYCONCERNINGHUMANUNDERSTANDING(SECTIONI) 689 be apprehended in an instant, by a superior penetration, derived from nature ...

CONFESSIONS(BOOKXI) 281 *[This is the heart of the matter for Augustine. He pursues the argument relentlessly throughout the res ...