Philosophic Classics From Plato to Derrida

1030 WILLIAMJAMES what they may, the Absolute will father them. Like the sick lion in Esop’s fable, all footprints lead into his ...

622 GEORGEBERKELEY THREE DIALOGUES BETWEEN HYLAS AND PHILONOUS, IN OPPOSITION TO SCEPTICS AND ATHEISTS THEFIRSTDIALOGUE PHILONOU ...

PRAGMATISM 1031 speak incredulously of the Absolute, therefore, and disregards your criticisms because they deal with aspects of ...

THREEDIALOGUES(1) 623 and a thousand nameless beauties of nature inspire the soul with secret transports; its faculties too bein ...

1032 WILLIAMJAMES it were, and merely in my own private person,—it clashes with other truths of mine whose benefits I hate to gi ...

624 GEORGEBERKELEY HYLAS: I mean what all men mean—one that doubts of everything. PHILONOUS: He then who entertains no doubts co ...

1033 Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was born in Röcken, Prussia, in 1844. He was named in honor of the Prussian king, Friedrich Wil ...

THREEDIALOGUES(1) 625 HYLAS: Right. PHILONOUS: Does it not follow from this, that though I see one part of the sky red, and anot ...

1034 FRIEDRICHNIETZSCHE professor, but Leipzig immediately awarded him a doctorate without examination or thesis, and within a y ...

626 GEORGEBERKELEY consequently, if there is any difference, we are more certain of its real existence than we can be of the rea ...

INTRODUCTION 1035 In order to face life honestly and clearly, the creative genius must begin by pro- claiming the death of God. ...

THREEDIALOGUES(1) 627 PHILONOUS: It hath not therefore, according to you, any real being? HYLAS: I own it. PHILONOUS: Is it ther ...

1036 FRIEDRICHNIETZSCHE A representative sampling of Neitzsche’s thought can be found in The Portable Nietzsche,edited by Walter ...

628 GEORGEBERKELEY PHILONOUS: Can any doctrine be true that necessarily leads a man into an absurdity? HYLAS: Without doubt it c ...

THEBIRTH OFTRAGEDY 1037 THE BIRTH OF TRAGEDY (in part) I. Much will have been gained for esthetics once we have succeeded in app ...

THREEDIALOGUES(1) 629 HYLAS: Hold, Philonous, I now see what it was deluded me all this time. You asked whether heat and cold, s ...

1038 FRIEDRICHNIETZSCHE who is responsive to the stimuli of art behaves toward the reality of dream much the way the philosopher ...

630 GEORGEBERKELEY HYLAS: It is this very motion in the external air that produces in the mind the sen- sation of sound.For, str ...

THEBIRTH OFTRAGEDY 1039 souls have no idea how cadaverous and ghostly their “sanity” appears as the intense throng of Dionysiac ...

THREEDIALOGUES(1) 631 HYLAS: To deal ingenuously, I do not like it. And, after the concessions already made, I had as well grant ...