„La philosophie de Leibniz est donc un retour «aux formes substantielles, si décriées». Pour lui, comme pour Aristote, la substance enveloppe deux co-principes essentiels dont l’un est actif et l’autre passif; l’être est une dualité qui se ramène à l’unité d’un même sujet: c’est une trinité.“ (p. 23) #Piat #Leibniz #FormesSubstantielles #substance #trinité
Hobbes: Common Wealth
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„The finall Cause, End, or Designe of men, (who naturally love Liberty, and Dominion over others,) in the introduction of that restraint upon themselves, (in which wee see them live in Common-wealths,) is the foresight of their own preservation, and of a more contented life thereby; that is to say, of getting themselves out from that miserable condition of Warre, which is necessarily consequent (as hath been shewn) to the naturall Passions of men, when there is no visible Power to keep them in awe, and tye them by feare of punishment to the performance of their Covenants, and observation of these Lawes of Nature“. (p. 389) #Hobbes #CommonWealth #War #LawsOfNature
Hume: Pride
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„Concerning all other bodily accomplishments, we may observe in general, that whatever in ourselves is either useful, beautiful, or surprizing, is an object of pride; and the contrary, of humility. These qualities agree in producing a separate pleasure; and agree in nothing else.“ (Sect. II, §7) #Hume #pride
Berkeley: Ideas Imprinted on the Senses are Real Things
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„Ideas imprinted on the Senses are real Things, or do really Exist, this we do not deny, but we deny they can subsist without the Minds which perceive them, or that they are Resemblances of any Archetypes Existing without the Mind: Since the very Being of a Sensation or Idea consists in being perceived, and an Idea can be like nothing but an Idea.“ (§90) #Berkeley #ideas #sensation
Morrison: Twilight and Dawn
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„[F]ollow me down to the space between the twilight and the dawn“.