Philosophic Classics From Plato to Derrida

980 SØRENKIERKEGAARD take himself out of existence, the more inward his existing can become in existence; and when it is made im ...

572 JOHNLOCKE it has in the understanding,) gives us no knowledge of real existence at all. Where, by the way, we may take notic ...

CONCLUDINGUNSCIENTIFICPOSTSCRIPT 981 What, then, is the absurd? The absurd is that the eternal truth has come into existence in ...

ANESSAYCONCERNINGHUMANUNDERSTANDING(IV, 10) 573 (for really to doubt of it is manifestly impossible,) let him for me enjoy his b ...

982 SØRENKIERKEGAARD obtaining certainty about something altogether different. One hundred thousand individual witnesses, who by ...

574 JOHNLOCKE us. Nay, I presume I may say, that we more certainly know that there is a God, than that there is anything else wi ...

983 It is hard to think of a more influential—or more controversial—nineteenth- century thinker than Karl Marx. Not content simp ...

ANESSAYCONCERNINGHUMANUNDERSTANDING(IV, 11) 575 me; since he can never be sure I say anything contrary to his own opinion. As to ...

984 KARLMARX time, Marx received a sizable settlement from the shareholders of the Rheinishe Zeitung,and he and his new bride we ...

576 JOHNLOCKE floating in our minds, and appearances entertaining our fancies, without the real exis- tence of things affecting ...

INTRODUCTION 985 Although Marx accepted Hegel’s dialectical understanding of history, he became convinced that Hegel’s philosoph ...

ANESSAYCONCERNINGHUMANUNDERSTANDING(IV, 11) 577 greater certainty to govern his actions by than what is as certain as his action ...

986 KARLMARX and Anarchy.Our final selection from Marx presents a portion of Bakunin’s criticism, along with Marx’s response. I ...

578 Gottfried Wilhelm Von Leibniz was born and raised in academe. His father was a professor of moral philosophy at the Universi ...

ECONOMIC ANDPHILOSOPHICMANUSCRIPTS OF 1844 987 miserable commodity; that the misery of the worker is inversely proportional to t ...

INTRODUCTION 579 discredit of all concerned.” It may be best to credit both men with the discovery. It is interesting that Leibn ...

988 KARLMARX So much does the realization of labor appear as diminution that the worker is diminished to the point of starvation ...

580 GOTTFRIEDLEIBNIZ At his death, he left an enormous number of unpublished letters and manu- scripts. One major work was publi ...

ECONOMIC ANDPHILOSOPHICMANUSCRIPTS OF 1844 989 labor and turns others into machines. It produces intelligence, but for the worke ...

INTRODUCTION 581 for the will it suffices that this reason should incline without necessitating.” Of course, he also claims that ...