Self and Soul A Defense of Ideals
108 Ancient Ideals Yet the thinker is continually drawn to books. How does one read them creatively? “One must be an inventor to ...
The Thinker 109 and Words worth, all of whom seek ideals in the natu ral world, seem antiquated and even childish. But one might ...
110 Ancient Ideals understood (we assume) in its primary form. Nature is about competition. Nature is about survival of the fi t ...
The Thinker 111 bay. He writes grimly practical essays under the rubric of “The Wisdom of Life”: he instructs the reader to save ...
112 Ancient Ideals But the thinker is often lonely for another reason, too. He dis- covers that there is no one he can truly tal ...
The Thinker 113 (though such issues can never disappear) and issues of humanity writ large will matter more. If so far the metap ...
114 Ancient Ideals The thinker has much to contend with— the home, marriage, his own body, convention, books, the weight of past ...
The Thinker 115 Of course Socrates cannot answer any of these diffi cult questions either, or so he indicates. But at least he k ...
116 Ancient Ideals Socrates comparable to Achilles? How outrageous! Socrates was homely and poor. He had no noble lineage; his m ...
The Thinker 117 painful and it might result in their having to reorder their lives. It is more con ve nient to kill the person w ...
118 Ancient Ideals derision of the crowd. But sometimes the crowd’s derision can turn murderous. It happened to Socrates as it h ...
The Thinker 119 cleared the ground. He has shown the enormous fl aws in the un- derstanding of life that most men and women sust ...
120 Ancient Ideals understands that what he thought was real isn’t. The images he saw in front of him are mere shadows cast by o ...
The Thinker 121 how stifl ing it is to be limited to looking at the world as a mere the- ater of desire. He wanders the cave muc ...
122 Ancient Ideals But the more time we spend trying to focus on the light of the sun, the richer life grows. We begin to achiev ...
The Thinker 123 calm. We will be able to recall times when our minds and hearts were balanced in harmony and the world outside s ...
124 Ancient Ideals hero is Achilles, who is always ready for death. True courage to Plato is not being without fear: true courag ...
The Thinker 125 reason is sovereign. Plato does not detest Homer, as the world has come to think. He holds Homeric values in hig ...
126 Ancient Ideals anxious, unmoored. The government that refl ects this inner state is similarly chaotic. Demo cratic man canno ...
The Thinker 127 rearing, on the relations between the sexes, on the right kind of diet and the best modes of exercise. He commen ...
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