Philosophic Classics From Plato to Derrida

66 PLATO BOOKII Now when I said these things, I imagined I’d be released from discussion, but as it seems, it was just a prologu ...

REPUBLIC(BOOKII) 67 injustice, from anyone in the way I want it. I want to hear it itself by itself praised, and I assume that I ...

68 PLATO he tried out whether the ring had this power in it, and it turned out that way for him, to become invisible when he twi ...

REPUBLIC(BOOKII) 69 made to be situated in a way opposite to the one before, for while he does nothing unjust, let him have a re ...

70 PLATO my argument stand. But neither is there any way for me not to help out, since I’m afraid that it would be irreverent to ...

REPUBLIC(BOOKII) 71 Ostrakafrom 428B.C., found on the north side of the Acropolis. These clay disks were used in ostracism votin ...

72 PLATO and the other to shoes, and not have the trouble of sharing things with others but do him- self, by himself, the things ...

REPUBLIC(BOOKII) 73 “So our city will need more of the farmers and other craftsmen.” “More indeed.” “And in particular other cou ...

74 PLATO by preparing cereal from barley and flour from wheat, baking the latter and shaping the for- mer by hand, and when they ...

REPUBLIC(BOOKII) 75 “And doubtless the land that was sufficient then to feed the people will now have gone from sufficient to sm ...

76 PLATO “So it would be our task, likely, if we’re going to be capable of it, to pick out which and which sort of natures are a ...

REPUBLIC(BOOKII) 77 “Certainly I know it.” “Therefore,” I said, “this is possible, and it’s not against nature for the guardian ...

78 PLATO BOOKIII “Okay,” I said, “what would be the next thing after that for us to distinguish? Wouldn’t it be which of these ...

REPUBLIC(BOOKIII) 79 “Now I’m not understanding again,” he said. “I guess I’m speaking like a tragedy,” I said. “By those who ar ...

80 PLATO “Nothing new,” I said, “but something Phoenician*that has come into currency in many places before now, since the poets ...

REPUBLIC(BOOKIII) 81 any of them were unwilling to obey the laws, and defend against those outside it if any enemy, like a wolf, ...

82 PLATO “And in this way they’d keep themselves and the city safe. But whenever they possess private land and houses and curren ...

REPUBLIC(BOOKIV) 83 “Well then, the first thing that seems to me to be clearly visible in it is wisdom. And there seems to be so ...

84 PLATO “But as for courage, it and the part of the city it lies in, and through which the city is called courageous, are surel ...

REPUBLIC(BOOKIV) 85 if you want, because what we’ve been looking for now is not that but justice. For the inquiry about that, I ...