Same and Other
Identity and difference, likeness and unlikeness among things.
Works to read
- The Bacchae and Other Plays by Euripides, 405 BCE (The Bacchae) · Great Books
- Richard II by William Shakespeare, c. 1595 · Great Books
- Discourse on Method by Rene Descartes, 1637 · Great Books
- The Beast in the Jungle by Henry James, 1903 · Great Books
- Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James, 1907 · Great Books
- Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego by Sigmund Freud, 1921 (English 1922) · Great Books
- The Ego and the Id by Sigmund Freud, 1923 (English 1927) · Great Books
- The Early Christian Creeds by Various, 2nd-5th centuries CE
- On the Making of Man by Gregory of Nyssa, c. 379
- Deliverance from Error (The Confessions of al-Ghazali) by Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, c. 1100
- The Collar by George Herbert, 1633
- Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1782-1789
Passages
From the texts
But the Pythagoreans have said in the same way that there are two principles, but added this much, which is peculiar to them, that they thought that finitude and infinity were not attributes of certain other things, e.g. of fire or earth or anything else of this kind, but that infinity itself and unity itself were the substance of the things of which they are predicated.
— Aristotle, Metaphysics
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