A History of Western Philosophy
Lycurgus ( Plutarch continues) "did accustom his citizens so, that they neither would nor could live alone, but were in manner a ...
ideas, which was a pioneer attempt to deal with the still unsolved problem of universals; third, his arguments in favour of immo ...
to be derived from the senses, but is only to be achieved by the intellect. This, in turn fitted in well with Pythagoreanism. Fr ...
or the military tactician. It must be something more generalized than this, since its possession is supposed to make a man capab ...
CHAPTER XIV Plato's Utopia PLATO'S most important dialogue, the Republic, consists, broadly, of three parts. The first (to near ...
various proposals, educational, economic, biological, and religious. It is not always clear how far these proposals apply to oth ...
among the blessed gods." How is a schoolmaster to reprove mirth effectively, if boys can quote this passage? Fourth, there are p ...
Up to a certain age, the young are to see no ugliness or vice. But at a suitable moment, they must be exposed to "enchantments," ...
rulers of the city will manipulate the lots on eugenic principles. They will arrange that the best sires shall have the most chi ...
of the government, just as giving medicine is of physicians. The government, as we have already seen, is to deceive people in pr ...
Before philosophy began, the Greeks had a theory or feeling about the universe, which may be called religious or ethical. Accord ...
football team, although they acquire thereby a great superiority. If football were managed as democratically as the Athenian gov ...
former is impersonal; it is something having (at least ostensibly) no special reference to the ego of the man who feels the desi ...
amiably discussing justice with an old man named Cephalus, and with Plato's elder brothers Glancon and Adeimanms, Thrasymachus, ...
about it, one, at least, is making an intellectual error, just as much as if the disagreement were a scientific one on some matt ...
to draw up their laws; Solon had done this for Athens, and Protagoras for Thurii. Colonies, in those days, were completely free ...
discussion with which we are now concerned, Parmenidean phrases and arguments are constantly recurring. There is, however, a rel ...
But how is this possible? The answer is that particular things always partake of opposite characters: what is beautiful is also, ...
perfectly; it is only owing to this imperfection that there can be many of them. The cat is real; particular cats are only appar ...
and "one is enough; let there be one man who has a city obedient to his will, and he might bring into existence the ideal polity ...
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