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Academy Adeimantos Alkibiades Anaxagoras Anaximander Anaximenes Anytos appears Archytas argument Aristophanes Aristotle Aristoxenos Athenian Athens atoms attributed become believe body called century B.C. certainly Charmides connexion cosmology course death Demokritos dialogue Dion Dionysios disciple doctrine doubt earth Eleatic elements Empedokles Eukleides everything explained fact fifth century forms further geometry give goreans Gorgias Greek hand Herakleitos hypothesis identified implies intelligible Ionian Isokrates judgement knowledge Kritias later Laws Leukippos mathematical means meant Megarics Milesian motion natural once origin Orphic Parmenides partake participation Perikles Phaedo Philolaos philosophy Plato possible predicate probably problem Protagoras Pytha Pythagoras Pythagorean question reality reason referred regarded represented Republic rest scientific seems seen sensation sense sensible things Sokrates Sophist soul speak statement suggested supposed teaching tells Thales Theaetetus Theaitetos theory thought Timaeus tion told true truth word Xenophon Zeno καὶ
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Side 130 - ... ri), as we are told in the Symposium. His comrades in arms were much astonished, and some of them brought their camp-beds into the open to see if he would really remain standing there all night. When the sun rose next morning, he said a prayer and went about his business.2 § 101. A man of this temperament would naturally be influenced by the religious movement of his time, and Plato indicates clearly that he was. He was a firm believer in the immortality of the soul and in the life to come,...
Side 200 - The great principle which should guide us is that of "symmetry" or " harmony." That is, no doubt, Pythagorean. If we apply this test to pleasures, we may attain to " calm," calm of body, which is health, and calm of soul, which is cheerfulness. That is to be found chiefly in the goods of the soul. " He who chooses the goods of the soul chooses the more divine ; he who chooses the goods of the ' tabernacle' (ie the body)1 chooses the human
Side 198 - To the bastard belong all these ; sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch. The trueborn is quite apart from these." That is the answer of Demokritos to Protagoras. He had said that honey, for instance, was both bitter and sweet, sweet to me and bitter to you. In reality it was "no more such than such" (ovSev /JLO\\OV rolov q Tofoc).
Side 12 - the religious instinct"; "the faith", namely, "that reality is divine, and that the one thing needful is for the soul, which is akin to the divine, to enter into communion with it".
Side 35 - Homer and Hesiod have ascribed to the gods all things that are a shame and a disgrace among mortals, stealings and adulteries and deceivings of one another.
Side 221 - There is no writing of mine on this subject, nor ever shall be. It is not capable of expression like other branches of study If I thought these things could be adequately written down and stated to the world, what finer occupation could I have had in life than to write what would be of great service to mankind" (341 ce; vide Burnet — Thales to Plato, p.
Side 67 - Can it fo thought or not? Parmenides goes on to consider in the light of this principle the consequences of saying that anything is. In the first place, it cannot have come into being. If it had, it must have arisen from nothing or from something. It cannot have arisen from nothing ; for there is no nothing. It cannot have arisen from something ; for there is nothing else than what is.
Side 109 - age of the Sophists " is, above all, an age of reaction against science. § 88. It has been pointed out that the Sophists did not constitute a school, but it is true for all that that their teaching had something in common. They all aim chiefly at practical ends. Their profession is that they teach "goodness" (apery"), and that is explained to mean the power of directing states and families aright.
Side 20 - Thales visited Egypt, and it is probable that what he learned there formed the basis of his work in geometry and astronomy. He is said to have taught the Egyptians how to measure the height of the pyramids by means of their shadows.
Side 221 - I thought they could be adequately written down and stated to the world, what finer occupation could I have had in life than to write what would be of great service to mankind, and to reveal Nature in the light of day to all men ? But I do not even think the effort to attain this a good thing for...