The Dialogues of Plato, المجلد 2Charles Scribner's sons, 1907 |
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abstrac Adeimantus admit animals answer appear argument Aristotle Asclepius beauty become begin better body called cause Cephalus Certainly citizens Critias desire disease divine drink earth elements enemies equally eternal evil eyes fire flesh give Glaucon gods guardians gymnastic happiness harmony hear heaven Hellenic Hephaestus Hermocrates Hesiod Homer honor human idea ideal imagine imitation individual injustice justice kind knowledge light lives lover mankind manner matter mean military tactics mind motion nature never oligarchy opinion orichalcum pain perfect Phaedrus philosopher phlegm Plato pleasure poetry poets Polemarchus Poseidon principle Protagoras question reason replied Republic rulers sense sight Socrates Solon sort soul speak suppose tell temperance things thought Thrasymachus Timaeus timocracy tion triangles true truth tyrant unjust virtue whole wisdom women words youth Zeus
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الصفحة 329 - over which they show the puppets. I see, he said. And do you see, I said, men passing along the wall carrying vessels, which appear over the wall ; also figures of men and animals, made of wood and stone and various materials ; and some of the passengers, as you would expect, are talking,
الصفحة 331 - next he will gaze upon the light of the moon and the stars ; and he will see the sky and the stars by night, better than the sun, or the light of the sun, by day ? Certainly. And at last he will be able to see the sun, and not
الصفحة 155 - man has more and the just less. Next, in their dealings with the State : when there is an income-tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income ; and when there is anything to be received the one gains nothing and the other much. Observe also that when they
الصفحة 331 - would felicitate himself on the change, and pity them ? Certainly, he would. And if they were in the habit of conferring honors on those who were quickest to observe and remember and foretell which of the shadows went before, and which followed after, and which were together, do you think that he would care for such honors
الصفحة 329 - and some of them are silent ? That is a strange image, he said, and they are strange prisoners. Like ourselves, I replied ; and they see only their own shadows, or the shadows of one another, which the fire throws on the opposite wall of the cave ? True, he said ; how could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to
الصفحة 437 - turns on the knees of Necessity ; and on the upper surface of each circle is a siren, who goes round with them, hymning a single sound and note. The eight together form one harmony ; and round about, at equal intervals, there is another band, three in number, each sitting upon her
الصفحة 270 - that the wives of these guardians are to be common, and their children also common, and no parent is to know his own child, nor any child his parent" Yes, he said, that is a much greater wave than the other
الصفحة 188 - recognize the truth of your remark. And surely this instinct of the dog is very charming, — your dog is a true philosopher. Why? Why, because he distinguishes the face of a friend and of an enemy only by the criterion of knowing and not knowing. And must not the creature be fond of learning who
الصفحة 230 - child because he has to descend in the scale and become a husbandman or artisan, just as there may be others sprung from the artisan class who are raised to honor, and become guardians and auxiliaries. For an oracle says that when a
الصفحة 230 - guards the State, it will then be destroyed. Such is the tale ; is there any possibility of making our citizens believe in it? Not in the present generation, he replied ; I do not see any way of accomplishing this ; but their sons may be made to believe, and their sons' sons, and posterity after them.