A Dark History of Modern Philosophy by Freydberg Bernard

Author:Freydberg, Bernard
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2017-04-08T04:00:00+00:00

Notes

1. Heraclitus, The Presocratic Philosophers, ed. G. S. Kirk, J. E. Raven, and M. Schofield (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983), Frag. 247, 210–211. All future references to this book shall begin with the name of the philosopher cited, followed by “in Kirk et al., Presocratic Philosophers,” the fragment number listed in the text, and the page number of the text on which the fragment is found. I will retranslate many of the fragments.

2. Martin Heidegger, Gesamtausgabe, Band 9 (Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1975), 354, 185.

3. For example, Pluto, Orkus.

4. Greek is in another form: daimona.

5. Plato, The Republic of Plato, trans. Allan Bloom (New York: Basic Books, 1968), 617e.

6. John Sallis, On Translation (Bloomington: Indiana University Press), 6.

7. Heraclitus, in Kirk et al., Presocratic Philosophers, Frag. 204, 108.

8. René Descartes, Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy, 4th ed., trans. Donald Cress (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1998), 1.

9. Heraclitus, in Kirk et al., Presocratic Philosophers, Frag. 196, 187.

10. Benedictus de Spinoza, The Ethics, in A Spinoza Reader: The Ethics and Other Works, ed. and trans. Edwin Curley (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994), II, D2, 115–116.

11. Parmenides, in Kirk et al., Presocratic Philosophers, Frag. 295, 248.

12. Martin Heidegger, An Introduction to Metaphysics, trans. Ralph Mannheim (Garden City, NY: Doubleday Anchor, 1961), 115.

13. Ibid., 121.

14. Spinoza, Ethics, I, P16, 97.

15. Ibid., I, D7, 86.

16. Ibid., I, P29, 104.

17. Descartes, Discourse on Method, Cor. 1, 59.

18. Spinoza, Ethics, I, P32, 105.

19. Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason, trans. Lewis White Beck (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1956), 10 (Akad. 10).

20. Spinoza, Ethics, Part IV, P 8, 204.

21. In the final section, on Nietzsche, I will take up the theme of tragedy—and the cheerfulness that is proper to its reception.

22. Parmenides, in Kirk et al., Presocratic Philosophers, Frag. 293, 247.

23. Ibid., Frag. 24, 247.

24. See Martin Heidegger, What Is Called Thinking?, trans. J. Glenn Gray (New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1972), Part 2, esp. 250–251.

25. Henry G. Liddell and Robert Scott, An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon: Founded upon Liddell and Scott’s Greek English Lexicon (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1975), 533–534.

26. Parmenides, in Kirk et al., Presocratic Philosophers, Frag. 298, 251.

27. Ibid., Frag. 300, 254.

28. Spinoza, Ethics, 85.

29. Ibid.

30. Ibid.

31. Ibid.

32. Ibid.

33. Huperēphanos could also mean “arrogant,” or “grandiose.” It carries the sense of excess (huper-), and the word is used with a feeling of self-deprecating playfulness.

34. Aristotle, Physics 3/II, 194b18–195a3, cited in The Basic Works of Aristotle, trans. Richard McKeon (New York: Modern Library Reissue, 2009).

35. Thomas Aquinas, The Summa Theologica, trans. Anton C. Pegis (New York: Modern Library, 1948), 45–46.

36. Spinoza, Ethics, 89.

37. Parmenides, in Kirk et al., Presocratic Philosophers, Frag. 293 (palintropos), 247.

38. John Sallis, Force of Imagination: The Sense of the Elemental (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000), 87.

39. Descartes, Discourse on Method, 1.

40. Spinoza, Ethics, P40, Sch 2, IV, 141.

41. Hans Reichenbach, The Rise of Scientific Philosophy (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968), 55.

42. Ibid., 142.

43. “But truth is a powerful weapon, and it has at all times collected followers among the best. There is good evidence that that the circle of its followers is growing larger and larger.

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