Plato Contra Atheos: Plato Against the AtheistsHarper & brothers, 1845 - 378 pages |
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... Socrates of the dialogue . The first two are either mere listeners , or only brought in as suggestive helps in the various transitions of the discourse . After nine books occu- pied with varied and extended schemes of legislation , and ...
... Socrates of the dialogue . The first two are either mere listeners , or only brought in as suggestive helps in the various transitions of the discourse . After nine books occu- pied with varied and extended schemes of legislation , and ...
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... Socrates was ever fond of drawing com- parisons from the body to the soul , from the health of the one to the moral soundness of the other , and from the sciences and arts that pertain to the one , to that higher philosophy which is ...
... Socrates was ever fond of drawing com- parisons from the body to the soul , from the health of the one to the moral soundness of the other , and from the sciences and arts that pertain to the one , to that higher philosophy which is ...
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... Socratic or Platonic irony . “ It may be likely , at least , that these wise people talk correctly . ” Εἰκός γε , “ likely , plausible , probable , at least , if not certain . ” Γέ τοί που is a combination of particles deserving special ...
... Socratic or Platonic irony . “ It may be likely , at least , that these wise people talk correctly . ” Εἰκός γε , “ likely , plausible , probable , at least , if not certain . ” Γέ τοί που is a combination of particles deserving special ...
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... Socrates himself , and that Plato in this , as well as in almost everything else , truly represents his peculiarities , not only of reasoning , but of style , may be inferred from the manner in which Aristophanes joins together these ...
... Socrates himself , and that Plato in this , as well as in almost everything else , truly represents his peculiarities , not only of reasoning , but of style , may be inferred from the manner in which Aristophanes joins together these ...
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... Socrates or the chief speaker is conversing ; thus furnishing a fine illustra- tion of that maieutical process in which Socrates so gloried as his peculiar method . The whole passage , in accordance with this view , may be thus ...
... Socrates or the chief speaker is conversing ; thus furnishing a fine illustra- tion of that maieutical process in which Socrates so gloried as his peculiar method . The whole passage , in accordance with this view , may be thus ...
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