ideas
I understand, said Socrates, and quite accept your account. But tell me, Zeno, do you not further think that there is an idea of likeness in itself, and another idea of unlikeness, which is the opposite of likeness, and that in these two, you and I and all other things to which we apply the term many, participate — things which participate in likeness become in that degree and manner like ; and so far as they participate in unlikeness become in that degree unlike, or both like and (…)
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Jowett: idea
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Jowett: act justly
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de Castro[134d] Socrates : For you and the state, if you act justly and temperately, will act so as to please God. ALCIBIADES I
Str. And this we believe to be the origin of the tyrant and the king, of oligarchies, and aristocracies, and democracies — because men are offended at the one monarch, and can never be made to believe that any one can be worthy of such authority, or is able and willing in the spirit of virtue and knowledge to act justly and holily to all ; they fancy that he will be a (…) -
Jowett: ignorance
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroAlcibiades : It is difficult, Socrates, to gainsay what has been well spoken : one thing, however, I do observe — how many evils are caused to men by ignorance, when, as it seems, we are beguiled by her not only into doing, [143b] but — worst of all — into praying to be granted the greatest evils. Now that is a thing that no one would suppose of himself ; each of us would rather suppose he was competent to pray for his own greatest good, not his greatest evil. Why, that would seem, in truth, (…)
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Jowett: act unjustly
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroSocrates : But if you act unjustly, with your eyes on the godless and dark, the probability is that your acts will resemble these through your ignorance of yourselves. ALCIBIADES I
And that, Callicles, is just what you are now doing. You praise the men who feasted the citizens and satisfied their desires, and people say that they have made the city great, not seeing that the swollen And ulcerated condition of the State is to be attributed to these elder statesmen ; for they have filled the (…) -
Jowett: ignorant
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroAlcibiades : How do you mean ? Can there be anything of which it is better for anybody, in any condition whatsoever, to be ignorant than cognizant ? ALCIBIADES II
Socrates : Then it seems that ignorance of what is best, and to be ignorant of the best, is a bad thing. ALCIBIADES II
Socrates : Then let us consider this further case. Suppose it should quite suddenly occur to your mind that you had better take a dagger and go to the door of Pericles, your own guardian and friend, [144a] and (…) -
Jowett: holy act
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroSoc. And does piety or holiness, which has been defined to be the art of attending to the gods, benefit or improve them ? Would you say that when you do a holy act you make any of the gods better ? EUTHYPHRO
So firmly-rooted and so sound is the noble and liberal character of our city, and endowed also [245d] with such a hatred of the barbarian, because we are pure-blooded Greeks, unadulterated by barbarian stock. For there cohabit with us none of the type of Pelops, or Cadmus, or Aegyptus (…) -
Jowett: Imitation
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de Castromimesis
Imitation, in dancing, Laws 2. 655, 668; 7.796, 798, 814 E ;—in language, Crat. 423, 426, 427 ; — in music, ib. 423 ; Laws 2. 655, 668 foil.; 7.798 E, 812 C (cp. Rep. 3. 397; Laws 10. 889 D);—in painting, Crit. 107 (cp. Tim. 19 D ; Laws 10. 889 D);—in science, Soph. 266;—in style, Rep. 3.393, 394; 10. 596 foil, 600 E foil.; Laws 4. 719 C : — affects the character, Rep. 3. 395 ; Laws 2. 668; 7. 798 E; thrice removed from the truth, Rep. 10. 596598, 602 B; concerned with the weaker (…) -
Jowett: act according
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroHear, then, I said, my own dream ; whether coming through the horn or the ivory gate, I cannot tell. The dream is this : Let us suppose that wisdom is such as we are now defining, and that she has absolute sway over us ; then each action will be done according to the arts or sciences, and no one professing to be a pilot when he is not, or any physician or general, or any one else pretending to know matters of which he is ignorant, will deceive or elude us ; our health will be improved ; our (…)
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Jowett: imitation
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroImitation = mimesis
Then now, I said, I will endeavour to explain to you my opinion about this poem of Simonides. There is a very ancient philosophy which is more cultivated in Crete and Lacedaemon than in any other part of Hellas, and there are more philosophers in those countries than anywhere else in the world. This, however, is a secret which the Lacedaemonians deny ; and they pretend to be ignorant, just because they do not wish to have it thought that they rule the world by wisdom, (…) -
Jowett: actions of men
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroSoc. I perceive, Ion ; and I will proceed to explain to you what I imagine to be the reason of this. The gift which you possess of speaking excellently about Homer is not an art, but, as I was just saying, an inspiration ; there is a divinity moving you, like that contained in the stone which Euripides calls a magnet, but which is commonly known as the stone of Heraclea. This stone not only attracts iron rings, but also imparts to them a similar power of attracting other rings ; and (…)
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Jowett: noesis
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroSoc. That is a graver matter, and there, my friend, the modern interpreters of Homer may, I think, assist in explaining the view of the ancients. For most of these in their explanations of the poet, assert that he meant by Athene "mind" (nous) and "intelligence" (dianoia), and the maker of names appears to have had a singular notion about her ; and indeed calls her by a still higher title, "divine intelligence" (Thou noesis), as though he would say : This is she who has the mind of God (…)
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Jowett: unjust actions
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroSoc. But in my opinion, Polus, the unjust or doer of unjust actions is miserable in any case, — more miserable, however, if he be not punished and does not meet with retribution, and less miserable if he be punished and meets with retribution at the hands of gods and men. GORGIAS
Soc. Then rhetoric is of no use to us, Polus, in helping a man to excuse his own injustice, that of his parents or friends, or children or country ; but may be of use to any one who holds that instead of excusing (…) -
Jowett: nous
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroSoc. That is a graver matter, and there, my friend, the modern interpreters of Homer may, I think, assist in explaining the view of the ancients. For most of these in their explanations of the poet, assert that he meant by Athene "mind" (nous) and "intelligence" (dianoia), and the maker of names appears to have had a singular notion about her ; and indeed calls her by a still higher title, "divine intelligence" (Thou noesis), as though he would say : This is she who has the mind of God (…)
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Jowett: kinds of actions
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroAth. Let us remember what has been well said by us already, that our ideas of justice are in the highest degree confused and contradictory. Bearing this in mind, let us proceed to ask ourselves once more whether we have discovered a way out of the difficulty. Have we ever determined in what respect these two classes of actions differ from one another ? For in all states and by all legislators whatsoever, two kinds of actions have been distinguished — the one, voluntary, the other, (…)
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Jowett: Mind
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de Castronous
Mind, the disposer and cause of all [Anaxagoras], Crat. 400 A, 413; Phaedr. 270 A; Phaedo 97 C; Phil. 30 D; Laws 12. 966 foil. ; the cause of names, Crat. 416; = beauty ; ibid. (cp. Phil 65 E); to be distinguished from true opinion, Tim. 52 D; mind and motion, Soph. 249 (cp. Laws 10. 897 foil.); the life of mind, Phil. 21 E; mind and wisdom, ib. 28 foil.; Laws 1. 631 C, 632 C; 10. 897; 12. 963 A; mind belongs to the cause, Phil. 31 ; should be engaged in the contemplation of true (…) -
Jowett: active
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroThe soul, then, as being immortal, and having been born again many times, rand having seen all things that exist, whether in this world or in the world below, has knowledge of them all ; and it is no wonder that she should be able to call to remembrance all that she ever knew about virtue, and about everything ; for as all nature is akin, and the soul has learned all things ; there is no difficulty in her eliciting or as men say learning, out of a single recollection — all the rest, if a man (…)
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Jowett: mind
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroMind
Socrates : Then let us consider this further case. Suppose it should quite suddenly occur to your mind that you had better take a dagger and go to the door of Pericles, your own guardian and friend, [144a] and ask if he were at home, with the design of killing just him and no one else, and his servants said he was at home : now, I do not say you would be inclined to do any such thing, but I suppose, if you are under the impression which at some moment may well be present, surely, to (…) -
Jowett: passive
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroThen I heard someone who had a book of Anaxagoras, as he said, out of which he read that mind was the disposer and cause of all, and I was quite delighted at the notion of this, which appeared admirable, and I said to myself : If mind is the disposer, mind will dispose all for the best, and put each particular in the best place ; and I argued that if anyone desired to find out the cause of the generation or destruction or existence of anything, he must find out what state of being or (…)
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Jowett: state of mind
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroHippias : But you see, Socrates, you do not consider the entirety of things, nor do they with whom you are in the habit of conversing, but you all test the beautiful and each individual entity by taking them separately and cutting them to pieces. For this reason you fail to observe that embodiments of reality are by nature so great and undivided. And now you have failed to observe to such a degree that you think there is some affection or reality which pertains to both of these together, (…)
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Jowett: actors
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroSoc. O that we were wise, Ion, and that you could truly call us so ; but you rhapsodes and actors, and the poets whose verses you sing, are wise ; whereas I am a common man, who only speak the truth. For consider what a very commonplace and trivial thing is this which I have said — a thing which any man might say : that when a man has acquired a knowledge of a whole art, the enquiry into good and bad is one and the same. Let us consider this matter ; is not the art of painting a whole ? ION (…)