The Republic of PlatoClarendon Press, 1881 - 327 pages |
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... greatest of them . There are nearer approaches to modern metaphysics in the Philebus and in the Sophist . The Politicus or Statesman is more ideal ; the form and institutions of the State are more clearly drawn out in the Laws ; as ...
... greatest of them . There are nearer approaches to modern metaphysics in the Philebus and in the Sophist . The Politicus or Statesman is more ideal ; the form and institutions of the State are more clearly drawn out in the Laws ; as ...
Page iv
... greatest creations of the human mind have been want- ing in unity . Tried by this test , several of the Platonic Dialogues , accord- ing to our modern ideas , appear to be defective , but the deficiency is no proof that they were ...
... greatest creations of the human mind have been want- ing in unity . Tried by this test , several of the Platonic Dialogues , accord- ing to our modern ideas , appear to be defective , but the deficiency is no proof that they were ...
Page vi
... greatest marks of design ' — justice more than the external framework of the State , the idea of good more than justice . It is in the fifth , sixth , and seventh books of the Republic that he reaches the ' summit of speculation , ' at ...
... greatest marks of design ' — justice more than the external framework of the State , the idea of good more than justice . It is in the fifth , sixth , and seventh books of the Republic that he reaches the ' summit of speculation , ' at ...
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... greatest villain bearing the highest character : and at his side let us place the just in his nobleness and simplicity - being , not seeming- without name or reward - clothed in his justice only - the best of men who is thought to be ...
... greatest villain bearing the highest character : and at his side let us place the just in his nobleness and simplicity - being , not seeming- without name or reward - clothed in his justice only - the best of men who is thought to be ...
Page xxxii
... greatest unconsciousness of the greatest untruth , e . g . if , in the language of the Gospels , ' he who was blind ' were to say ' I see , ' is another aspect of the state of mind which Plato is describing . The lie in the soul may be ...
... greatest unconsciousness of the greatest untruth , e . g . if , in the language of the Gospels , ' he who was blind ' were to say ' I see , ' is another aspect of the state of mind which Plato is describing . The lie in the soul may be ...
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Page 166 - Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other are compelled to stand aside, cities will never have rest from their evils, — no, nor the human race, as I believe, — and then only will this our State have a possibility of life and behold the light of day.
Page 85 - ... and also because he who has received this true education of the inner being will most shrewdly perceive omissions or faults in art and nature, and with a true taste, while he praises and rejoices over and receives into his soul the good, and becomes noble and good, he will justly blame and hate the bad, now in the days of his youth, even before he is able to know the reason why ; and when reason comes he will recognize and salute the friend with whom his education has made him long familiar.
Page 260 - ... sometimes idling and neglecting everything, then once more living the life of a philosopher; often he is busy with politics, and starts to his feet and says and does whatever comes into his head; and, if he is emulous of...
Page 103 - And this will be their salvation, and the salvation of the State. But should they ever acquire homes or lands or moneys of their own, they will become housekeepers and husbandmen instead of guardians, enemies and tyrants instead of allies of the other citizens ; hating and being hated, plotting and being plotted against, they will pass...
Page 296 - I understand ; you mean that he will be a ruler in the city of which we are the founders, and which exists in idea only ; for I do not believe that there is such an one anywhere on earth? In heaven, I replied, there is laid up a pattern of it, methinks, which he who desires may behold, and beholding, may set his own house in order i.
Page 47 - Then, as we have many wants, and many persons are needed to supply them, one takes a helper for one purpose and another for another; and when these partners and helpers are gathered together in one habitation the body of inhabitants is termed a state. True, he said. And they exchange with one another, and one gives, and another receives, under the idea that the exchange will be for their good.
Page 227 - 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 is no profit in them.
Page 205 - There are two subdivisions, in the lower of which the soul uses the figures given by the former division as images; the enquiry can only be hypothetical, and instead of going upwards to a principle descends to the other end; in the higher of the two, the soul passes out of hypotheses, and goes up to a principle which is above hypotheses, making no use of images as in the former case, but proceeding only in and through the ideas themselves.
Page 86 - Even so, as I maintain, neither we nor our guardians, whom we have to educate, can ever become musical until we and they know the essential forms of temperance, courage, liberality, magnificence, and their kindred, as well as the contrary forms, in all their combinations, and can recognize them and their images wherever they are found, not slighting them either in small things or great, but believing them all to be within the sphere of one art and study.
Page 267 - But when he has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.