Jowett / Benjamin Jowett

Matérias

• Jowett: EUT 11e-14a — Tereceira tentativa de definição da piedade
  24 de março de 2022

  Soc. And is, then, all which is just pious ? or, is that which is pious all just, but that which is just, only in part and not all, pious ?
  Euth. I do not understand you, Socrates.
  Soc. And yet I know that you are as much wiser than I am, as you are younger. But, as I was saying, revered friend, the abundance of your wisdom makes you lazy. Please to exert yourself, for there is no real difficulty in understanding me. What I mean I may explain by an illustration of what I do not mean. The (...)

• Jowett: Minos 314b-318e — Segunda tentatica de definição de lei. Objeções e respostas.
  24 de março de 2022

  Socrates : Then what thing especially of this sort shall we surmise law to be ?
  Companion : Our resolutions and decrees, I imagine : for how else can one describe law ? [314c] So that apparently the whole thing, law, as you put it in your question, is a city’s resolution.
  Socrates : State opinion, it seems, is what you call law.
  Companion : I do.
  Socrates : And perhaps you are right : but I fancy we shall get a better knowledge in this way. You call some men wise ?
  Companion : I do. (...)

• Jowett: Minos 318e-321d — A verdade sobre Minos
  24 de março de 2022

  Socrates : I will tell you, in order that you may not share the impiety of the multitude : for there cannot conceivably be anything more impious or more to be guarded against than being mistaken in word and deed with regard to the gods, and after them, with regard to divine men ; you must take very great precaution, whenever you are about to [319a] blame or praise a man, so as not to speak incorrectly. For this reason you must learn to distinguish honest and dishonest men : for God feels (...)

• Jowett: MENEXENUS
  24 de março de 2022

  MENEXENUS
  Persons of the Dialogue : MENEXENUS ; SOCRATES.
  The Menexenus has more the character of a rhetorical exercise than any other of the Platonic works. The writer seems to have wished to emulate Thucydides, and the far slighter work of Lysias. In his rivalry with the latter, to whom in the Phaedrus Plato shows a strong antipathy, he is entirely successful, but he is not equal to Thucydides. The Menexenus, though not without real Hellenic interest, falls very far short of the rugged (...)

• Jowett: SOPHIST
  24 de março de 2022

  SOPHIST
  Persons of the Dialogue : THEODORUS ; THEAETETUS ; SOCRATES ; An ELEATIC STRANGER, whom Theodorus and Theaetetus bring with them ; The younger SOCRATES, who is a silent auditor.
  The Sophist, like the Phaedrus, has a double character, and unites two enquiries, which are only in a somewhat forced manner connected with each other. The first is the search after the Sophist, the second is the enquiry into the nature of Not-being, which occupies the middle part of the work. For (...)

• Jowett: STATESMAN
  24 de março de 2022

  STATESMAN
  Persons of the Dialogue : THEODORUS ; SOCRATES ; The ELEATIC STRANGER ; The younger SOCRATES.
  The Statesman has lost the grace and beauty of the earlier dialogues. The mind of the writer seems to be so overpowered in the effort of thought as to impair his style; at least his gift of expression does not keep up with the increasing difficulty of his theme. The idea of the king or statesman and the illustration of method are connected, not like the love and rhetoric of the (...)

• Jowett: HIPPARCHUS
  24 de março de 2022

  HIPPARCHUS
  Persons of the Dialogue : SOCRATES, A Friend.
  [225a] Socrates : And what is love of gain ? What can it be, and who are the lovers of gain ?
  Friend : In my opinion, they are those who think it worth while to make gain out of things of no worth.
  Socrates : Is it your opinion that they know those things to be of no worth, or do not know ? For if they do not know, you mean that the lovers of gain are fools.
  Friend : No, I do not mean they are fools, but rascals who wickedly (...)

• Jowett: LOVERS
  24 de março de 2022

  LOVERS
  Persons of the Dialogue : SOCRATES, Young men.
  [132a] Socrates : I entered the grammar school of the teacher Dionysius, and saw there the young men who are accounted the most comely in form and of distinguished family, and their lovers. Now it chanced that two of the young people were disputing, but about what, I did not clearly overhear : it appeared, however, that they were disputing either about Anaxagoras or about Œnopides ; at any rate, they appeared to be drawing circles, (...)

• Jowett: THEAGES
  24 de março de 2022

  THEAGES
  Persons of the Dialogue : DEMODOCUS, SOCRATES, THEAGES.
  [121a] Demodocus : Socrates, I was wanting to have some private talk with you, if you had time to spare ; even if there is some demand, which is not particularly important, on your time, do spare some, nevertheless, for me.
  Socrates : Why, in any case I happen to have time to spare, and for you, moreover, I have plenty. Well, you are free to say whatever you wish.
  Demodocus : Then do you mind if we step aside here from the (...)

• Jowett: CLEITOPHON
  24 de março de 2022

  CLEITOPHON
  Persons of the Dialogue : SOCRATES, CLEITOPHON.
  [406a] Socrates : It was told us recently by someone about Cleitophon, the son of Aristonymus, that in a conversation he had with Lysias he was finding fault with the instructions of Socrates and praising to the skies the lectures of Thrasymachus.
  Cleitophon : That was a man, Socrates, who gave you a false report of the talk I had about you with Lysias. For I was really praising you for some things, though not for others. But (...)