Tag: Plato

Plato

According to the ancient story, there is a god who holds in his hands the beginning and end and middle of all things, and straight he marches in the cycle

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Plato

We should think of the most authoritative part of our soul as a guardian spirit given by god, living in the summit of the body, which can properly be said

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Plato

We must reject the conception of education professed by those who say that they can put into the mind knowledge that was not there before – rather as if they

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Plato

‘My dear Socrates’, said Glaucon, ‘anyone with any sense knows there is no limit short of a lifetime when one’s discussing this sort of thing. Don’t worry about us and

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Plato

For just as physicians who care for the body believe that the body cannot get any benefit from any food offered to it until all obstructions are removed, so, my

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Plato

There seems to be a battle like that of the gods and the giants going on among them, because of their disagreements about existence […] Some of them drag down

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Plato

If you ask one of them a question, he pulls out puzzling little phrases, like arrows from a quiver, and shoots them off; and if you try to get hold

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Plato

What’s this, Polus? Is this a new type of proof, laughing at what your opponent says instead of giving reasons? (Gorgias)

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If there is no One, the others neither are, nor can be imagined to be, one or many. Nor yet, if there is no One, can the others be or

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