Philosophic Classics From Plato to Derrida

106 PLATO “You’re talking about a unified front among arguments,” I said, “and here I was imagining I could run away from one of ...

REPUBLIC(BOOKV) 107 “Then do you breed from all of them alike, or are you eager to breed as much as possible from the best ones? ...

108 PLATO “And won’t the officials set up for this purpose take over the offspring born on each occasion, male or female officia ...

REPUBLIC(BOOKV) 109 “There’s no way,” I said. “But from that day on which any of them becomes a bridegroom, whatever offspring a ...

110 PLATO “It’s the same,” he said, “and as for what you’re asking, the best constituted city is the one situated closest to suc ...

REPUBLIC(BOOKVI) 111 the instituting of the rulers, even though I knew that the complete truth would be offensive and a hard thi ...

112 PLATO “What was it?” “We were saying something to the effect that getting the most beautiful possible look at these things w ...

REPUBLIC(BOOKVI) 113 “And, my friend, that the ones who believe the latter can’t specify what sort of intelligence, but are forc ...

114 PLATO without insight seem to you to be any different from blind people who travel along the right road?” “No different,” he ...

REPUBLIC(BOOKVI) 115 “And I don’t imagine,” I said, “that there are many others either, not to say none, that have any additiona ...

116 PLATO darkness, something that comes into and passes out of being, it deals in seeming and grows dim, changing its opinions ...

REPUBLIC(BOOKVI) 117 “I’m putting them,” he said. “And would you also be willing to claim,” I said, “that it’s divided with resp ...

118 PLATO e 511a b c d e “I do know that very well,” he said. “Then you also know that they make additional use of visible forms ...

REPUBLIC(BOOKVII) 119 514a b c 515a b c d BOOKVII “Next,” I said, “make an image of our nature as it involves education and the ...

120 D Forms Knowledge /Active Insight C Mathematical Objects DiscursiveThinking Intelligible World B Visible Things Belief /Trus ...

REPUBLIC(BOOKVII) 121 e 516a b c d e 517a “And if one forced him to look at the light itself, wouldn’t he have pain in his eyes ...

122 PLATO b c d e 518a b c back in, and if this period of adjustment was not very short, wouldn’t he make a laugh- ingstock of h ...

REPUBLIC(BOOKVII) 123 d e 519a b c d e 520a that’s not able to turn away from darkness toward the light in any other way than al ...

124 PLATO b c d e 521a b the benefit with which each sort is capable of improving the community; the law doesn’t produce men of ...

125 Aristotle was born in Stagira, on the border of Macedonia. His mother, Phaestis, was from a family of doctors, and his fathe ...