Soc. Bear in mind the whole business of the mid-wives, and then you will see my meaning better : — No woman, as you are probably aware, who is still able to conceive and bear, attends other women, but only those who are past bearing. THEAETETUS
Soc. The reason of this is said to be that Artemis — the goddess of childbirth — is not a mother, and she honours those who are like herself ; but she could not allow the barren to be mid-wives, because human nature cannot know the mystery of an art (…)
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Jowett: mid-wives
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Jowett: infinity
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroSoc. Yes ; and he tells how refutation or further refutation is to be managed, whether in accusation or defence. I ought also to mention the illustrious Parian, Evenus, who first invented insinuations and indirect praises ; and also indirect censures, which according to some he put into verse to help the memory. But shall I "to dumb forgetfulness consign" Tisias and Gorgias, who are not ignorant that probability is superior to truth, and who by : force of argument make the little appear (…)
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Jowett: world below
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroSoc. But how did you come to have this skill about Homer only, and not about Hesiod or the other poets ? Does not Homer speak of the same themes which all other poets handle ? Is not war his great argument ? and does he not speak of human society and of intercourse of men, good and bad, skilled and unskilled, and of the gods conversing with one another and with mankind, and about what happens in heaven and in the world below, and the generations of gods and heroes ? Are not these the themes (…)
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Jowett: infinite
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroLet us reflect in another way, and we shall see that there is great reason to hope that death is a good, for one of two things : — either death is a state of nothingness and utter unconsciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another. Now if you suppose that there is no consciousness, but a sleep like the sleep of him who is undisturbed even by the sight of dreams, death will be an unspeakable gain. For if a person were to select the night in (…)
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Jowett: absolute beautiful
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroSocrates : Well, that shall be done, God willing, Hippias. Now, however, give me a brief answer to a question about your discourse, for you reminded me of the beautiful just at the right moment. For recently, my most excellent friend, as I was finding fault with some things in certain speeches as ugly and praising other things as beautiful, a man threw me into confusion by questioning me very insolently somewhat after this fashion : "How, if you please, do you know, Socrates," said he, (…)
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Jowett: incomplete
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroNow, when all of them, both those who visibly appear in their revolutions as well as those other gods who are of a more retiring nature, had come into being, the creator of the universe addressed them in these words : "Gods, children of gods, who are my works, and of whom I am the artificer and father, my creations are indissoluble, if so I will. All that is bound may be undone, but only an evil being would wish to undo that which is harmonious and happy. Wherefore, since ye are but (…)
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Jowett: absolute beauty
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroSocrates : I will tell you, imitating him in the same way as a while ago, that I may not use to you such harsh and uncouth words as he uses to me. For you may be sure, "Tell me, Socrates," he will say, "do you think it would be unjust if you got a beating for singing such a long dithyramb so unmusically and so far from the question ?" "How so ?" I shall say. "How so ?" he will say ; "are you not able to remember that I asked for the absolute beautiful, [292d] by which everything to which it (…)
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Jowett: demonstration
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroNay, my good friend, said Socrates, let us not boast, lest some evil eye should put to flight the word which I am about to speak. That, however, may be left in the hands of those above, while I draw near in Homeric fashion, and try the mettle of your words. Briefly, the sum of your objection is as follows : You want to have proven to you that the soul is imperishable and immortal, and you think that the philosopher who is confident in death has but a vain and foolish confidence, if he thinks (…)
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Jowett: absolute truth
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroAnd what knowledge ought we to acquire ? May we not answer with absolute truth — A knowledge which will do us good ? EUTHYDEMUS
And will not knowledge — I mean absolute knowledge — answer to absolute truth ? PARMENIDES
Str. That we shall some day require this notion of a mean with a view to the demonstration of absolute truth ; meanwhile, the argument that the very existence of the arts must be held to depend on the possibility of measuring more or less, not only with one another, but (…) -
Jowett: demons
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroHer. Must not demons and heroes and men come next ? CRATYLUS
They are holy demons upon the earth, CRATYLUS
Soc. And therefore I have the most entire conviction that he called them demons, because they were daemones (knowing or wise), and in our older Attic dialect the word itself occurs. Now he and other poets say truly, that when a good man dies he has honour and a mighty portion among the dead, and becomes a demon ; which is a name given to him signifying wisdom. And I say too, that (…) -
Jowett: absolute existence
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroSoc. There is another point. I should not like us to be imposed upon by the appearance of such a multitude of names, all tending in the same direction. I myself do not deny that the givers of names did really give them under the idea that all things were in motion and flux ; which was their sincere but, I think, mistaken opinion. And having fallen into a kind of whirlpool themselves, they are carried round, and want to drag us in after them. There is a matter, master Cratylus, about which I (…)
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Jowett: democracy
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroI can give you as proofs of this, not words only, but deeds, which you value more than words. Let me tell you a passage of my own life, which will prove to you that I should never have yielded to injustice from any fear of death, and that if I had not yielded I should have died at once. I will tell you a story — tasteless, perhaps, and commonplace, but nevertheless true. The only office of state which I ever held, O men of Athens, was that of senator ; the tribe Antiochis, which is my tribe, (…)
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Jowett: absolute being
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroAnd each kind of absolute knowledge will answer to each kind of absolute being ? PARMENIDES
And are we assured, after looking at the matter from many points of view, that absolute being is or may be absolutely known, but that the utterly non-existent is utterly unknown ? THE REPUBLIC BOOK V
These, I said, are the points which you must consider ; and those who have most of this comprehension, and who are most steadfast in their learning, and in their military and other appointed duties, (…) -
Jowett: propositions
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de Castroapophansis
Soc. And there are true and false propositions ? CRATYLUS
Soc. Then, if propositions may be true and false, names may be true and false ? CRATYLUS
But there is no harmony, he said, in the two propositions that knowledge is recollection, and that the soul is a harmony. Which of them, then, will you retain ? PHAEDO
Soc. The principle which has just turned up, which is a marvel of nature ; for that one should be many or many one, are wonderful propositions ; and he who (…) -
Jowett: absolute knowledge
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroAnd will not knowledge — I mean absolute knowledge — answer to absolute truth ? PARMENIDES
And each kind of absolute knowledge will answer to each kind of absolute being ? PARMENIDES
Then none of the ideas are known to us, because we have no share in absolute knowledge ? PARMENIDES
Would you, or would you not say, that absolute knowledge, if there is such a thing, must be a far more exact knowledge than our knowledge ; and the same of beauty and of the rest ? PARMENIDES
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Jowett: negation
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de Castroapophasis
Negation and opposition, Soph. 257; — negation of pain, not =pleasure, Phil. 43, 44.
Theod. Certainly we are. About these speculations of Heracleitus, which, as you say, are as old as Homer, or even older still, the Ephesians themselves, who profess to know them, are downright mad, and you cannot talk with them on the subject. For, in accordance with their text-books, they are always in motion ; but as for dwelling upon an argument or a question, and quietly asking and (…) -
Jowett: absolute unity
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroAll this she taught me at various times when she spoke of love. And I remember her once saying to me, "What is the cause, Socrates, of love, and the attendant desire ? See you not how all animals, birds, as well as beasts, in their desire of procreation, are in agony when they take the infection of love, which begins with the desire of union ; whereto is added the care of offspring, on whose behalf the weakest are ready to battle against the strongest even to the uttermost, and to die for (…)
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Jowett: virtue
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de Castro[407b] “Whither haste ye, O men ? Yea, verily ye know not that ye are doing none of the things ye ought, seeing that ye spend your whole energy on wealth and the acquiring of it ; while as to your sons to whom ye will bequeath it, ye neglect to ensure that they shall understand how to use it justly, and ye find for them no teachers of justice, if so be that it is teachable — or if it be a matter of training and practice, instructors who can efficiently practice and train them — nor have ye (…)
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Jowett: absolute good
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroAnd an absolute beauty and absolute good ? PHAEDO
Soc. The claims both of pleasure and mind to be the absolute good have been entirely disproven in this argument, because they are both wanting in self-sufficiency and also in adequacy and perfection. PHILEBUS
And there is an absolute beauty and an absolute good, and of other things to which the term "many" is applied there is an absolute ; for they may be brought under a single idea, which is called the essence of each. THE REPUBLIC BOOK (…) -
Jowett: Hades
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de Castro[365a] Zeus-born son of Laertes, wily Odysseus, I must speak out the word without refraining, as I shall act and think will be accomplished [and pray do not mutter in discord sitting here beside me]. For hateful to me as the gates of HADES [365b] is he who hides one thing in his heart and says another. But I shall speak that which shall be accomplished. LESSER HIPPIAS
For hateful to me as the gates of HADES is he who hides one thing in his heart and says another, LESSER HIPPIAS
Who knows (…)