Socrates : Law tends none the less to be discovery of reality : but men, who do not use [315b] always the same laws, as we observe, are not always able to discover what the law is intent on — reality. For come now, let us see if from this point onward we can get it clear whether we use always the same laws or different ones at different times, and whether we all use the same, or some of us use some, and others others. MINOS
Law is the king of all, of mortals as well as of immortals ; (…)
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Jowett: Law
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Jowett: aei
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de Castroeternally
Soc. Many terrible misfortunes are said to have happened to him in his life — last of all, came the utter ruin of his country ; and after his death he had the stone suspended (talanteia) over his head in the world below — all this agrees wonderfully well with his name. You might imagine that some person who wanted to call him Talantatos (the most weighted down by misfortune), disguised the name by altering it into Tantalus ; and into this form, by some accident of tradition, it (…) -
Jowett: law
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de Castro[313a] Socrates : Tell me, what is law ? MINOS
Companion : To what kind of law does your question refer ? MINOS
Socrates : What ! Is there any difference between law and law, in this particular point of being law ? For just consider what is the actual question I am putting to you. It is as though I had asked, what is gold : if you had asked me in the same manner, to what kind of gold I refer, I think your question would have been incorrect. For I presume there is no difference between (…) -
Jowett: injustice
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de Castroadikia
[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 (…) -
Jowett: principle
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroWell, he said, I admit that justice bears a resemblance to holiness, for there is always some point of view in which everything is like every other thing ; white is in a certain way like black, and hard is like soft, and the most extreme opposites have some qualities in common ; even the parts of the face which, as we were saying before, are distinct and have different functions, are still in a certain point of view similar, and one of them is like another of them. And you may prove that (…)
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Jowett: eternity
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de Castroaion
Let 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 (…) -
Jowett: ruling principle
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroOnce more, he said, what ruling principle is there of human things other than the soul, and especially the wise soul ? Do you know of any ? PHAEDO
"Every one sees that love is a desire, and we know also that non-lovers desire the beautiful and good. Now in what way is the lover to be distinguished from the non-lover ? Let us note that in every one of us there are two guiding and ruling principles which lead us whither they will ; one is the natural desire of pleasure, the other is an (…) -
Jowett: eternal
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de Castroaion
Soc. Nor can we reasonably say, Cratylus, that there is knowledge at all, if everything is in a state of transition and there is nothing abiding ; for knowledge too cannot continue to be knowledge unless continuing always to abide and exist. But if the very nature of knowledge changes, at the time when the change occurs there will be no knowledge ; and if the transition is always going on, there will always be no knowledge, and, according to this view, there will be no one to know and (…) -
Jowett: saving principle
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroWell then, I shall say, if you agree so far, be so good as to answer me a question : Do not the same magnitudes appear larger to your sight when near, and smaller when at a distance ? They will acknowledge that. And the same holds of thickness and number ; also sounds, which are in themselves equal, are greater when near, and lesser when at a distance. They will grant that also. Now suppose happiness to consist in doing or choosing the greater, and in not doing or in avoiding the less, what (…)
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Jowett: Agathon
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroAlso, "my eyes beheld Tantalus" ; for Prodicus the Cean was at Athens : he had been lodged in a room which, in the days of Hipponicus, was a storehouse ; but, as the house was full, Callias had cleared this out and made the room into a guest-chamber. Now Prodicus was still in bed, wrapped up in sheepskins and bed-clothes, of which there seemed to be a great heap ; and there was sitting by him on the couches near, Pausanias of the deme of Cerameis, and with Pausanias was a youth quite young, (…)
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Jowett: principle of friendship
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroBut then, proceeding in this way, shall we not arrive at some first principle of friendship or dearness which is not capable of being referred to any other, for the sake of which, as we maintain, all other things are dear, and, having there arrived, we shall stop ? LYSIS
And the truly dear or ultimate principle of friendship is not for the sake of any other or further dear. LYSIS
Then the final principle of friendship, in which all other friendships terminated, those, I mean, which are (…) -
Jowett: not-being
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroSoc. Yes, Theaetetus ; and there are plenty of other proofs which will show that motion is the source of what is called being and becoming, and inactivity of not-being and destruction ; for fire and warmth, which are supposed to be the parent and guardian of all other things, are born of movement and friction, which is a kind of motion ; — is not this the origin of fire ? THEAETETUS
Soc. Very good ; and now tell me what is the power which discerns, not only in sensible objects, but in all (…) -
Jowett: principle of justice
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroCal. O Socrates, you are a regular declaimer, and seem to be running riot in the argument. And now you are declaiming in this way because Polus has fallen into the same error himself of which he accused Gorgias : — for he said that when Gorgias was asked by you, whether, if some one came to him who wanted to learn rhetoric, and did not know justice, he would teach him justice, Gorgias in his modesty replied that he would, because he thought that mankind in general would be displeased if he (…)
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Jowett: Not-being
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroNot-being never is, and do thou keep thy thoughts from this way of enquiry. SOPHIST
Str. Not-being has been acknowledged by us to be one among many classes diffused over all being. SOPHIST -
Jowett: true principle
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de Castrobut anything in which he is inferior, he avoids and depreciates, and praises the opposite partiality to himself, and because he from that he will thus praise himself. The true principle is to unite them. Philosophy, as a part of education, is an excellent thing, and there is no disgrace to a man while he is young in pursuing such a study ; but when he is more advanced in years, the thing becomes ridiculous, and I feel towards philosophers as I do towards those who lisp and imitate children. (…)
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Jowett: not-one
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroAnd will not all things that are not one, be other than the one, and the one other than the not-one ? PARMENIDES
Then not by reason of otherness is the one other than the not-one, or the not-one other than the one. PARMENIDES
Again, the not-one cannot partake of the one ; otherwise it would not have been not-one, but would have been in some way one. PARMENIDES
Nor can the not-one be number ; for having number, it would not have been not-one at all. PARMENIDES
Again, is the not-one (…) -
Jowett: guiding principle
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroSoc. And what is the guiding principle which makes them profitable or the reverse ? Are they not profitable when they are rightly used, and hurtful when they are not rightly used ? MENO
Now, 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 (…) -
Jowett: not-seeing
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroSoc. And seeing is knowing, and therefore not-seeing is not-knowing ? THEAETETUS
Soc. None of that, he will reply ; I do not ask or bid you answer in what sense you know, but only whether you know that which you do not know. You have been proved to see that which you do not see ; and you have already admitted that seeing is knowing, and that not-seeing is not-knowing : I leave you to draw the inference. THEAETETUS
Soc. Then we must not speak of seeing any more than of not-seeing, nor of (…) -
Jowett: divine principle
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroStr. The meaning is, that the opinion about the honourable and the just and good and their opposites, which is true and confirmed by reason, is a divine principle, and when implanted in the soul, is implanted, as I maintain, in a nature of heavenly birth. STATESMAN
And we should consider that God gave the sovereign part of the human soul to be the divinity of each one, being that part which, as we say, dwells at the top of the body, inasmuch as we are a plant not of an earthly but of a (…) -
Jowett: sensation
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroSocrates : Now what can law be ? Let us consider it in this way. Suppose someone had asked us about what was stated just now : [314a] Since you say it is by sight that things seen are seen, what is this sight whereby they are seen ? Our answer to him would have been : That sensation which shows objects by means of the eyes. And if he had asked us again : Well then, since it is by hearing that things heard are heard, what is hearing ? Our answer to him would have been : That sensation which (…)