Philosophic Classics From Plato to Derrida

700 DAVIDHUME is far otherwise. Nothing so like as eggs; yet no one, on account of this appearing sim- ilarity, expects the same ...

292 AUGUSTINE creation that, mutable as it is, it can attain beatitude by adhering to the immutable and supreme Good, which is G ...

ANENQUIRYCONCERNINGHUMANUNDERSTANDING(SECTIONV) 701 give me satisfaction in a matter of such importance. Can I do better than pr ...

CITY OFGOD(BOOKXII) 293 power to harm, but merely an inclination to oppose Him. In any case, God is immutable and completely inv ...

702 DAVIDHUME ourselves out of all virtue as well as social enjoyment. While we study with attention the vanity of human life, a ...

294 AUGUSTINE St. Matthew,from the Lindisfarne Gospels, before A.D. 698. (The British Library/SuperStock, Inc.) corner of the co ...

ANENQUIRYCONCERNINGHUMANUNDERSTANDING(SECTIONV) 703 object produces the other; nor is it, by any process of reasoning, he is eng ...

CITY OFGOD(BOOKXII) 295 We should pay no attention to those who praise fire for its light but condemn its heat—on the principle ...

296 AUGUSTINE first bad will bad? Now, the fact is that there was no first bad will that was made bad by any other bad will—it w ...

704 DAVIDHUME Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone which renders our experience useful to ...

CITY OFGOD(BOOKXII) 297 For, suppose we say that the man himself made his will evil. Very well, but what was the man himself bef ...

ANENQUIRYCONCERNINGHUMANUNDERSTANDING(SECTIONV) 705 receive benefits; or hatred, when we meet with injuries. All these operation ...

298 AUGUSTINE The will does not fall “into sin”; it falls “sinfully.” Defects are not mere relations to natures that are evil; t ...

CITY OFGOD(BOOKXII) 299 Now, it is true that their good will was not only the cause of their turning and adhering to Him, who is ...

706 DAVIDHUME sentiments. Belief is the true and proper name of this feeling; and no one is ever at a loss to know the meaning o ...

300 Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius was the son of a Roman high-government official. Possibly educated in Athens or Alexandri ...

INTRODUCTION 301 explains that God is completely outside time. This means that God “sees all things in his eternal present as yo ...

ANENQUIRYCONCERNINGHUMANUNDERSTANDING(SECTIONV) 707 case be the same with the other relations or principles of associations, thi ...

302 BOETHIUS THE CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY (in part) BOOKV CHAPTER6: PHILOSOPHYSOLVES THEPROBLEM OFPROVIDENCE ANDFREEWILL BYDIST ...

708 DAVIDHUME of saints and holy men, for the same reason, that they seek after types or images, in order to enliven their devot ...