The Dialogues of Plato, المجلد 2Clarendon Press, 1875 |
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admit Agathon agree Alcibiades answer Apollodorus appear argument Aristodemus Aristophanes Athenians beauty begin beloved better body called Callicles Certainly Chaerephon character Cleinias Crat Cratylus desire dialogue Diotima discourse disgraceful dishonourable divine drinking Eryximachus Euthyphro evil expression false fancy give gods Gorgias greatest happy hear Hellenes Heracleitus Hermogenes Hesiod Hippias Homer honour human ignorant imagine imitation immortality injustice justice knowledge language lover Lysias manner Mantineia matter mean Menexenus mind nature never noble non-lover notion Odysseus opinion oration pain Pausanias Pericles person persuade Phaedrus philosophy physician Plato pleasure poet Polus praise principle Prodicus Protagoras punishment question reason replied rhetoric rhetorician Socrates sophist sort soul speak speech suffer suppose surely Symposium tell temperate Theuth things thought true truth unjust virtue voluntarily wisdom wise words writings wrong youth Zeus
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الصفحة 51 - ... the beauty of one form is akin to the beauty of another; and then if beauty of form in general is his pursuit, how foolish would he be not to recognize that...
الصفحة 52 - ... beauty absolute, separate, simple, and everlasting, which without diminution and without increase, or any change, is imparted to the evergrowing and perishing beauties of all other things.
الصفحة 147 - Beloved Pan, and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and inward man be at one.
الصفحة 32 - After the division the two parts of man, each desiring his other half, came together, and throwing their arms about one another, entwined in mutual embraces, longing to grow into one...
الصفحة 51 - So that if a virtuous soul have but a little comeliness, he will be content to love and tend him, and will search out and bring to the birth thoughts which may improve the young, until he is compelled to contemplate and see the beauty of institutions and laws, and to understand that the beauty of them all is of one family, and that personal beauty is a trifle...
الصفحة 47 - There is a certain age at which human nature is desirous of procreation — procreation which must be in beauty and not in deformity; and this procreation is the union of man and woman, and is a divine thing: for conception and generation are an immortal principle in the mortal creature, and in tb« inharmonious they can never be.
الصفحة 51 - These are the lesser mysteries of love, into which even you. Socrates, may enter; to the greater and more hidden ones which are the crown of these, and to which, if you pursue them in a right spirit, they will lead, I know not whether you will be able to attain. But I will do my utmost to inform you, and do you follow if you can. For he who would proceed aright in this matter should begin in youth to visit beautiful forms; and...
الصفحة 31 - Androgynous" is only preserved as a term of reproach. In the second place, the primeval man was round, his back and sides forming a circle; and he had four hands and four feet, one head with two faces, looking opposite ways, set on a round neck and precisely alike; also four ears, two privy members, and the remainder to correspond.
الصفحة 42 - I will rehearse a tale of love which I heard from Diotima of Mantineia, a woman wise in this and in many other kinds of knowledge, who in the days of old, when the Athenians offered sacrifice before the coming of the plague, delayed the disease ten years. She was my instructress...
الصفحة 53 - ... than love. And therefore, also, I say that every man ought to honour him as I myself honour him, and walk in his ways, and exhort others to do the same, and praise the power and spirit of love according to the measure of my ability now and ever. The words which I have spoken, you, Phaedrus, may call an encomium of love, or anything else which you please.