Dialogues of Plato: Containing the Apology of Socrates, Crito, Phaedo, and ProtagorasColonial Press, 1899 - 208 sider |
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Side vi
... called Plato from the breadth of his shoulders , offers a striking example of this . Having gathered the best that had preceded him , he made a great leap forward by developing his own theory above the ruins of old errors . His methods ...
... called Plato from the breadth of his shoulders , offers a striking example of this . Having gathered the best that had preceded him , he made a great leap forward by developing his own theory above the ruins of old errors . His methods ...
Side vii
... called a Pantheist as not having the fixed idea of a personal intelligence . But a careful reading of the four dialogues collected here will , I fancy , show that he was much more than a believer in an abstract , pervasive , eternal ...
... called a Pantheist as not having the fixed idea of a personal intelligence . But a careful reading of the four dialogues collected here will , I fancy , show that he was much more than a believer in an abstract , pervasive , eternal ...
Side 2
... called " Apology " of Xenophon are not worth noticing , because the writing in which they are contained is manifestly spurious . The statements of the " Memorabilia " ( i . 2 , iv . 8 ) respecting he trial and death of Socrates agree ...
... called " Apology " of Xenophon are not worth noticing , because the writing in which they are contained is manifestly spurious . The statements of the " Memorabilia " ( i . 2 , iv . 8 ) respecting he trial and death of Socrates agree ...
Side 3
... called ; ( 2 ) The shorter address in mitigation of the penalty ; ( 3 ) The last words of prophetic rebuke and exhortation . The first part commences with an apology for his colloquial style ; he is , as he has always been , the enemy ...
... called ; ( 2 ) The shorter address in mitigation of the penalty ; ( 3 ) The last words of prophetic rebuke and exhortation . The first part commences with an apology for his colloquial style ; he is , as he has always been , the enemy ...
Side 17
... called wise , for my hearers always imagine that I myself possess the wisdom which I find wanting in others : but the truth is , O men of Athens , that God only is wise ; and in this oracle he means to say that the wisdom of men is ...
... called wise , for my hearers always imagine that I myself possess the wisdom which I find wanting in others : but the truth is , O men of Athens , that God only is wise ; and in this oracle he means to say that the wisdom of men is ...
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Side 30 - He who has the power to take part in the deliberative or judicial administration of any state is said by us to be a citizen of that state ; and speaking generally, a state is a body of citizens sufficing for the purposes of life.
Side 206 - But is there any one thus intended by nature to be a slave, and for whom such a condition is expedient and right, or rather is not all slavery a violation of nature? There is no difficulty in answering this question, on grounds both of reason and of fact. For that some should rule and others be ruled is a thing not only necessary, but expedient; from the hour of their birth, some are marked out for subjection, others for rule.
Side 171 - Further, it is clear that children should be instructed in some useful things, — for example, in reading and writing, — not only for their usefulness, but also because many other sorts of knowledge are acquired through them. With a like view they may be taught drawing, not to prevent their making mistakes in their own purchases, or in order that they may not be imposed upon in the buying or selling of articles, but rather because it makes them judges of the beauty of the human form. To be always...
Side 168 - The citizen should be moulded to suit the form of government under which he lives." For each government has a peculiar character which originally formed and which continues to preserve it. The character of democracy creates democracy, and the character of oligarchy creates oligarchy; and always the better the character, the better the government.
Side 35 - I shall then be able to continue my search into true and false knowledge; as in this world, so also in the next; and I shall find out who is wise, and who pretends to be wise, and is not.
Side 77 - ... when there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.
Side 169 - The existing practice is perplexing; no one knows on what principle we should proceed — should the useful in life, or should virtue, or should the higher knowledge, be the aim of our training; all three --,, b opinions have been entertained.
Side 77 - But a city ought to be composed, as far as possible, of equals and similars ; and these are generally the middle classes. Wherefore the city which is composed of middle-class citizens is necessarily best / N.
Side 33 - ... my accusers are keen and quick, and the faster runner, who is unrighteousness, has overtaken them. And now I depart hence condemned by you to suffer the penalty of death...
Side 27 - This was a specimen of the sort of commands which they were always giving with the view of implicating as many as possible in their crimes; and then I showed, not in word only but in deed, that, if I may be allowed to use such an expression, I cared not a straw for death, and that my great and only care was lest I should do an unrighteous or unholy thing.