Dialogues of Plato: Containing the Apology of Socrates, Crito, Phaedo, and ProtagorasColonial Press, 1899 - 208 sider |
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Side 50
... oligarchy , chiefly on a point where popular opinion is on their side . For men in general think that magistrates should be chosen not only for their merit , but for their wealth : a man , they say , who is poor cannot rule well - he ...
... oligarchy , chiefly on a point where popular opinion is on their side . For men in general think that magistrates should be chosen not only for their merit , but for their wealth : a man , they say , who is poor cannot rule well - he ...
Side 51
... oligarchy by their wealth , which enables them from time to time to send out some portion of the people to their colonies . This is their panacea and the means by which they give stability to the State . Accident favors them , but the ...
... oligarchy by their wealth , which enables them from time to time to send out some portion of the people to their colonies . This is their panacea and the means by which they give stability to the State . Accident favors them , but the ...
Side 54
... oligarchy or the tyrant . And the legislator or statesman is concerned entirely with the State ; a constitution or govern- ment being an arrangement of the inhabitants of a State . But a State is composite , and , like any other whole ...
... oligarchy or the tyrant . And the legislator or statesman is concerned entirely with the State ; a constitution or govern- ment being an arrangement of the inhabitants of a State . But a State is composite , and , like any other whole ...
Side 56
... oligarchy or a tyranny to a democracy . In such cases persons refuse to fulfil their contracts or any b An untranslatable play upon the word nuloupyol , which means either " a magistrate " or " an artisan . " other obligations , on the ...
... oligarchy or a tyranny to a democracy . In such cases persons refuse to fulfil their contracts or any b An untranslatable play upon the word nuloupyol , which means either " a magistrate " or " an artisan . " other obligations , on the ...
Side 57
... oligarchy or of a tyranny . This question runs up into another : when shall we say that the State is the same , and when different ? It would be a very superficial view which considered only the place and the inhabitants ; for the soil ...
... oligarchy or of a tyranny . This question runs up into another : when shall we say that the State is the same , and when different ? It would be a very superficial view which considered only the place and the inhabitants ; for the soil ...
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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.