Philosophic Classics From Plato to Derrida

recognize the laws [governing] the employment of its powers and all its actions: first, as belonging to the world of sense, unde ...

PROPOSITION 21:All things that follow from the absolute nature of any attribute of God must have existed always, and as infinite ...

conform to it, and this categorical “ought” presents a synthetic a prioriproposition, since besides my will affected by my sensu ...

absolutely. Therefore, a mode which exists necessarily and as infinite must have fol- lowed from the absolute nature of some att ...

890 IMMANUELKANT is possible to make use of reason in our conduct. Hence it is as impossible for the subtlest philosophy as for ...

FOUNDATIONS OF THEMETAPHYSICS OFMORALS 891 This is why man claims to possess a will which does not make him account- able for wh ...

Proof: Whatever is determined to exist and to act has been so determined by God (Pr. 26 and Cor. Pr. 24). But that which is fini ...

892 IMMANUELKANT natural laws comes to an end, there too all explanation ceases, and nothing remains but defense (i.e., refutati ...

ETHICS(I, P31) 487 be nor be conceived without their cause (Pr. 15 and Cor. Pr. 24). It follows, secondly, that God cannot prope ...

FOUNDATIONS OF THEMETAPHYSICS OFMORALS 893 Thus the question How is a categorical imperative possible?can be answered to this ex ...

894 IMMANUELKANT universal realm of ends regarded as they are in themselves (rational beings) can awaken in us a lively interest ...

conceived; and therefore (Sch. Pr. 29) it must be related to Natura naturata,not to Natura naturans,just like the other modes of ...

ONASUPPOSEDRIGHT TOLIE FROMALTRUISTICMOTIVES 895 The French philosopher refutes this principle in the following manner: It is a ...

896 IMMANUELKANT have been apprehended by the neighbors while he searched the house and thus the deed might have been prevented. ...

essence or definition involves a contradiction or because there is no external cause determined to bring it into existence. But ...

ONASUPPOSEDRIGHT TOLIE FROMALTRUISTICMOTIVES 897 Now in order to proceed from a metaphysics of law (which abstracts from all emp ...

MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT 1759–1797 Mary Wollstonecraft’s life is the fascinating story of a nonconformist seeking her way in an Engli ...

had a different intellect in act and a different will, his essence too would necessarily have been different. Therefore—as I ded ...

In A Vindication of the Rights of Woman,Wollstonecraft argues that women’s voices have been silenced because women are denied ed ...

A VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN (in part) CHAPTER 6 THEEFFECTWHICH ANEARLYASSOCIATION OFIDEASHASUPON THECHARACTER Educated ...