Philosophic Classics From Plato to Derrida

1010 CHARLESSANDERSPEIRCE notions, a modern reader who is not in awe of his grandiloquence is chiefly struck by the inadequacy o ...

602 GOTTFRIEDLEIBNIZ That is what Plato understood so well when he put forward his doctrine of reminis- cence, which is very sou ...

THEFIXATION OFBELIEF 1011 so related that if A were B would generally be. If so, the inference is valid; if not, not. It is not ...

DISCOURSE ONMETAPHYSICS 603 of the essence, thought and will of God and of all the ideas included in Him. Hence, it can be said ...

1012 CHARLESSANDERSPEIRCE there are such states of mind as doubt and belief—that a passage from one to the other is possible, th ...

604 GOTTFRIEDLEIBNIZ towards the apparent good, and so express or imitate God’s will in certain particular respects in respect o ...

THEFIXATION OFBELIEF 1013 opinion. We may fancy that this is not enough for us, and that we seek, not merely an opinion, but a t ...

DISCOURSE ONMETAPHYSICS 605 and that is reserved to the absolutely efficacious grace alone that is always victorious whether by ...

1014 CHARLESSANDERSPEIRCE not believe so-and-so, because I should be wretched if I did.” When an ostrich buries its head in the ...

606 GOTTFRIEDLEIBNIZ and the manifestation of His justice reduce, as well as His mercy and His perfections generally, and finall ...

THEFIXATION OFBELIEF 1015 In judging this method of fixing belief, which may be called the method of authority, we must, in the ...

DISCOURSE ONMETAPHYSICS 607 nature, and just so, that they answer of themselves to what happens in the whole uni- verse, though ...

1016 CHARLESSANDERSPEIRCE one way will afford him more pleasure than acting in another. This rests on no fact in the world, but ...

608 GOTTFRIEDLEIBNIZ THEEXCELLENCE OFMINDS. GODCONSIDERSTHEM IN PREFERENCE TOOTHERCREATURES. MINDSEXPRESSGOD RATHERTHAN THEWORL ...

THEFIXATION OFBELIEF 1017 with all the others. 2. The feeling which gives rise to any method of fixing belief is a dissatisfacti ...

DISCOURSE ONMETAPHYSICS 609 thing to exist in preference to others. Hence God’s quality of being Himself a mind precedes all oth ...

1018 CHARLESSANDERSPEIRCE you are, let it be known that you seriously hold a tabooed belief, and you may be perfectly sure of be ...

610 GOTTFRIEDLEIBNIZ the revolutions of the universe, since nothing can act on them but God alone; that none of our actions is f ...

1019 William James was born into one of the leading families of New York City. His grandfather, a strict Calvinist and also name ...

THEMONADOLOGY 611 In consequence of what has been said, the natural changes of the monads must result from an internal principl ...