Philosophic Classics From Plato to Derrida

758 DAVIDHUME The sceptical objections to moralevidence, or to the reasonings concerning matter of fact, are either popularor ph ...

354 THOMASAQUINAS QUESTION 96: OF THE POWER OF HUMAN LAW Second Article WHETHERITBELONGS TO THEHUMANLAW TOREPRESSALLVICES? We P ...

ANENQUIRYCONCERNINGHUMANUNDERSTANDING(SECTIONXII) 759 his profound reasonings; the first and most trivial event in life will put ...

SUMMATHEOLOGICA(II–II, Q.40) 355 these imperfect ones, being unable to bear such precepts, would break out into yet greater evil ...

760 DAVIDHUME philosophical decisions are nothing but the reflections of common life, methodized and corrected. But they will ne ...

356 THOMASAQUINAS salutary advice in the Gospel would rather have been counselled to cast aside their arms, and to give up soldi ...

ANENQUIRYCONCERNINGHUMANUNDERSTANDING(SECTIONXII) 761 let the terms be ever so exactly defined, without a train of reasoning and ...

SUMMATHEOLOGICA(II–II, Q.40) 357 (Rom. xiii. 4):He beareth not the sword in vain: for he is God’s minister, an avenger to execut ...

762 Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born in 1712 in the independent city-state of Geneva. His mother, Suzanne Bernard, was a member of ...

358 William was born in Ockham, Surrey, near London, between 1280 and 1290. He joined the Franciscan order as a young man. In 13 ...

INTRODUCTION 763 that liberate the individual. Moreover, the arts and sciences neither rise from nor lead to morality. As Rousse ...

INTRODUCTION 359 philosophy from theology and reason from faith more completely than had any of his predecessors. Ockham is prob ...

764 JEAN-JACQUESROUSSEAU of anarchy. The “fundamental problem” as Rousseau sees it, is to find an associa- tion that both defend ...

360 WILLIAM OFOCKHAM Plague Victim, from Das Buch der Cirurgia,1497, by Hieronymus Brunschwig. Beginning in 1347 the Bubonic Pla ...

THESOCIALCONTRACT 765 Lemos,Rousseau’s Political Philosophy: An Exposition and Interpretation (Athens, GA: University of Georgia ...

ONUNIVERSALS 361 ON UNIVERSALS (in part) SUMMALOGICAE, PARTI CHAPTER14: ON THEUNIVERSAL It is not enough for the logician to hav ...

766 JEAN-JACQUESROUSSEAU The first societies.The earliest of all societies, and the only natural one, is the family; yet childr ...

362 WILLIAM OFOCKHAM because it is one cause and not many. In the same way the intention of the soul is said to be a universal b ...

THESOCIALCONTRACT 767 king of the human race? Be that as it may, it cannot be denied that Adam was sovereign of the world, as Ro ...

ONUNIVERSALS 363 and, consequently, He would destroy the universal which is in that thing and in others of the same essence. Con ...