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Jowett: bad acts

quinta-feira 1º de fevereiro de 2024, por Cardoso de Castro

  

Socrates   : In running, then, he who does bad acts involuntarily is worse than he who does them voluntarily ? LESSER HIPPIAS

Socrates : And how is it in every other bodily exercise ? Is not he who is the better man in respect to his body able to perform both kinds of acts, the strong and the weak, the disgraceful and the fine, [374b] so that whenever he performs bad acts of a bodily kind, he who is the better man in respect to his body does them voluntarily, but he who is worse does them involuntarily ? LESSER HIPPIAS

Socrates : Then with the horse of better spirit one would do voluntarily the bad acts of that spirit, but with the one of worse spirit involuntarily ? LESSER HIPPIAS