Philosophic Classics From Plato to Derrida

THECONSOLATION OFPHILOSOPHY 303 lives in time lives in the present, proceeding from past to future, and nothing is so constitute ...

ANENQUIRYCONCERNINGHUMANUNDERSTANDING(SECTIONVI) 709 to the subsistence of all human creatures, it is not probable, that it coul ...

710 DAVIDHUME the probability receives a proportionable increase, and begets still a higher degree of belief or assent to that s ...

304 BOETHIUS you happen to see simultaneously a man walking on the street and the sun shining in the sky, even though you see bo ...

THECONSOLATION OFPHILOSOPHY 305 foreknowing this or that in succession, but in a single instant, without being changed itself, a ...

306 Saint Anselm was born to a noble family in Aosta, in what is now Italy. Following a youth of travel and learning, Anselm joi ...

ANENQUIRYCONCERNINGHUMANUNDERSTANDING(SECTIONVII) 711 the different events, in the same proportion as they have appeared in the ...

INTRODUCTION 307 Anselm’s argument was attacked by a fellow monk named Gaunilo. Anselm’s exchange with Gaunilo has been preserve ...

712 DAVIDHUME natural philosophy is chiefly retarded by the want of proper experiments and phenomena, which are often discovered ...

308 ANSELM(ANDGAUNILO) PROSLOGION [in part] PREFACE Some time ago at the pressing invitation of some brethren I did a small work ...

ANENQUIRYCONCERNINGHUMANUNDERSTANDING(SECTIONVII) 713 motion; these qualities are all complete in themselves, and never point ou ...

PROSLOGION 309 it be then that there is no such nature, since “the fool says in his heart, ‘There is no God’ ” [Ps. 13:1]? But s ...

714 DAVIDHUME which it operates, we should also know, why its influence reaches precisely to such boundaries, and no farther. A ...

310 ANSELM(ANDGAUNILO) something; in another sense, we think of it when we think of the thing itself. In the first sense, then, ...

ANENQUIRYCONCERNINGHUMANUNDERSTANDING(SECTIONVII) 715 First,It must be allowed, that, when we know a power, we know that very ci ...

GAUNILO ANDANSELM: DEBATE 311 thinks this thinks of something greater than if it were only in the intellect? What follows more l ...

716 DAVIDHUME obliged by reason to have recourse, on all occasions, to the same principle, which the vulgar never appeal to but ...

312 ANSELM(ANDGAUNILO) The Romanesque Cathedral a. Exterior view of the Abbey Church of the Madeleine, Vezelay, France,built in ...

ANENQUIRYCONCERNINGHUMANUNDERSTANDING(SECTIONVII) 717 trust our common methods of argument, or to think that our usual analogies ...

GAUNILO ANDANSELM: DEBATE 313 GAUNILO:[7.] As for the statement that it is inconceivable that the highest thing of all should no ...