 | Plato - 1871 - 684 pages
...am speaking of the Pythagoreans, of whom I was just now proposing to enquire about harmony. For they too are in error, like the astronomers; they investigate...good; but if pursued in any other spirit, useless. There is reason in that, he said. Now, when all these studies reach the point of intercommunion and... | |
 | Plato - 1871 - 676 pages
...and others not. That, he said, is a thing of more than mortal knowledge. A thing, I replied, which J would rather call useful; that is, if pursued with...good ; but if pursued in any other spirit, useless. There is reason in that, he said. Now, when all these studies reach the point of intercommunion and... | |
 | Plato - 1874 - 626 pages
...am speaking of the Pythagoreans, of whom I was just now proposing to inquire about harmony. For they too are in error, like the astronomers ; they investigate...good ; but if pursued in any other spirit, useless. There is reason in that, he said. Now, when all these studies reach the point of intercommunion and... | |
 | Plato - 1888 - 628 pages
...rather call useful ; that is, if sought after with a view to the beautiful and good ; but if jpursued in any other spirit, useless. Very true, he said....pursuit of them have a value for our objects ; otherwise there is no profit in them. 234 I suspect so ; but you are speaking, Socrates, of a vast Republic work.... | |
 | Plato - 1888 - 646 pages
...than mortal knowledge. A thing, I replied, which I would rather call useful ; that is, if sought after with a view to the beautiful and good ; but if pursued...pursuit of them have a value for our objects ; otherwise there is no profit in them. 1 Or, 'close alongside of their neighbour's instruments, as if to catch... | |
 | Plato - 1892 - 794 pages
...than mortal knowledge. A thing, I replied, which I would rather call useful ; that is, if sought after with a view to the beautiful and good ; but if pursued...pursuit of them have a value for our objects; otherwise there is no profit in them. 1 Or, ' close alongside of their neighbour's instruments, as if to catch... | |
 | Daniel Edward Phillips - 1894 - 40 pages
...curriculum is arranged with a single end in view, all preparatory to the ultimate end. "Now," says he, "when these studies reach the point of intercommunion and...to be considered in their mutual affinities, then, 1 think, and not until then, will the pursuit of them have any value for our purpose; otherwise they... | |
 | John Raymond Howard - 1899 - 236 pages
...numbers are harmonious and others not. ... A thing which I would call useful ; that is, if sought after with a view to the beautiful and good ; but if pursued in any other spirit, useless. And so we have at last arrived at the hymn of Dialectic [Philosophy]. This is of that strain which... | |
 | Plato - 1901 - 444 pages
...cloa* »!ung«i<Je of i Ueir neighbor's instruments, as if to catch a sound from them." if sought after with a view to the beautiful and good ; but if pursued...pursuit of them have a value for our objects ; otherwise there is no profit in them. I suspect so; but you are speaking, Socrates, of a vast work. What do you... | |
 | Richard Wilson - 1905 - 224 pages
...studies reach the point of intercommunion and connection with one another," we read in tine Republic, " and come to be considered in their mutual affinities,...pursuit of them have a value for our objects ; otherwise there is no profit in them." We are all agreed at the present time that correlation between the various... | |
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Now, when all these studies reach the point of inter-communion and connection with one another, and come to be considered in their mutual affinities, then, I think, but not till then, will the pursuit of them have a value for our objects; otherwise there... 
