Philosophic Classics From Plato to Derrida

86 PLATO “I do,” he said. “So if one ought to refer to any city as stronger than pleasures and desires, and than itself, that ne ...

REPUBLIC(BOOKIV) 87 holding, we too weren’t looking at the thing itself but were gazing off into the distance somewhere, which i ...

88 PLATO “Because it’s the just thing?” “Yes.” “Then in this respect too, having and doing what’s properly one’s own would be ag ...

REPUBLIC(BOOKIV) 89 “But the city seemed to be just because each of the three classes of natures present in it did what properly ...

90 PLATO “Say it,” he said. “Does the same thing have the power to stand still and move,” I said, “at the same time in the same ...

REPUBLIC(BOOKIV) 91 “We’re going to claim that,” he said. “And the one is for drink, the other for food?” “Yes.” “Now to the ext ...

92 PLATO “And wasn’t it because it was about a particular sort of thing that it too came to be of a particular sort, and the sam ...

REPUBLIC(BOOKIV) 93 “So let these two forms be marked off in the soul,” I said. “But is the part that has to do with spiritednes ...

94 PLATO “Yes,” I said, “as long as it comes to light as something differing from the reason- ing part, the same way it manifest ...

REPUBLIC(BOOKIV) 95 things that are not of a kind suited to it, so that it turns the whole life of all the parts upside-down.” “ ...

96 PLATO “So our dream has come to complete fulfillment; we said we suspected, right from when we started founding the city, tha ...

REPUBLIC(BOOKIV) 97 “Necessarily.” “And producing health is settling the things in the body into a condition of master- ing and ...

98 PLATO BOOKV “Well, I call that kind of city and polity, and that kind of man, good and right, and if this sort are right, the ...

REPUBLIC(BOOKV) 99 that you don’t get tired in any way of going all through the way it seems to you about the things we’re askin ...

100 PLATO common, or should they stay inside the house as though they were disabled by bear- ing and nursing the puppies, while ...

REPUBLIC(BOOKV) 101 who wants to dispute it, whether it’s someone fun-loving or the serious type, as to whether female human nat ...

102 PLATO able to examine something that’s being said by making distinctions according to forms, but pounce on the contradiction ...

REPUBLIC(BOOKV) 103 easily, the other with difficulty? And that the one, on the basis of a brief study, would be apt to discover ...

104 PLATO “Quite so.” “So are we going to assign all of them to men and none to women?” “Really, how could we?” “But we’ll claim ...

REPUBLIC(BOOKV) 105 “Then in the city we’ve been founding, which do you imagine would turn out as better men, the guardians, whe ...