A History of Western Philosophy
leading, and must be tested soberly when the divine intoxication has passed. Plato's vision, which he completely trusted at the ...
vision and the confused vision of sense-perception by an analogy from the sense of sight. Sight, he says, differs from the other ...
hood, and have their legs and necks chained so that they cannot move, and can only see before them, being prevented by the chain ...
"dog," "cat"; or, if not these, then relational words such as "similar," "before," and so on. Such words are not meaningless noi ...
"Yes, Socrates, said Parmenides; that is because you are still young; the time will come, if I am not mistaken, when philosophy ...
theoretically) enable us to say "this part or aspect is beautiful, while that part or aspect is ugly." And as regards "double" a ...
so on through a whole Noah's ark. All this, however, seems, in the Republic, to have been not adequately thought out. A Platonic ...
who has been chosen for these merits will spend the years from twenty to thirty on the four Pythagorean studies: arithmetic, geo ...
tronomy, but at every later stage it was harmful. The ethical and aesthetic bias of Plato, and still more of Aristotle, did much ...
An earlier dialogue, the Crito, tells how certain friends and disciples of Socrates arranged a plan by which he could escape to ...
spirit of philosophy will not fear death, but, on the contrary, will welcome it, yet he will not take his own life, for that is ...
gentlemanly sort. He does not say that the philosopher should wholly abstain from ordinary pleasures, but only that he should no ...
others, became dominated by love of power, which led them to appalling cruelties and persecutions, nominally for the sake of rel ...
the body, and while the soul is infected with the evils of the body, our desire for truth will not be satisfied. This point of v ...
body?... And this separation and release of the soul from the body is termed death.... And the true philosophers, and they only, ...
The first argument is that all things which have opposites are generated from their opposites--a statement which reminds us of A ...
Take the concept of equality. We must admit that we have no experience, among sensible objects, of exact equality; we see only a ...
change. Thus things seen are temporal, but things unseen are eternal. The body is seen, but the soul is unseen; therefore the so ...
temperate because "each pleasure and pain is a sort of nail which nails and rivets the soul to the body, until she becomes like ...
but was determined to prove the universe agreeable to his ethical standards. This is treachery to truth, and the worst of philos ...
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