Wisdom
And does not he who does his duty act temperately or wisely ? CHARMIDES
Yes, he acts wisely. CHARMIDES
Then, I said, he may sometimes do good or harm, and not know what he is himself doing, and yet, in doing good, as you say, he has done temperately or wisely. Was not that your statement ? CHARMIDES
Then, as would seem, in doing good, he may act wisely or temperately, and be wise or temperate, but not know his own wisdom or temperance ? CHARMIDES
Soc. But as to the epithet (…)
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Jowett: wisely
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Jowett: purifier of the soul
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroStr. They cross-examine a man’s words, when he thinks that he is saying something and is really saying nothing, and easily convict him of inconsistencies in his opinions ; these they then collect by the dialectical process, and placing them side by side, show that they contradict one another about the same things, in relation to the same things, and in the same respect. He, seeing this, is angry with himself, and grows gentle towards others, and thus is entirely delivered from great (…)
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Jowett: wiser
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroWisdom
Socrates : But perhaps, my excellent friend, some person who is wiser than either you or I may say we are wrong to be so free with our abuse of ignorance, [143c] unless we can add that it is ignorance of certain things, and is a good to certain persons in certain conditions, as to those others it is an evil. ALCIBIADES II
[132d] Now this one of the two lovers had spent his time on humane studies, whereas the other, whom he was abusing, had spent his on athletics. So I decided that (…) -
Jowett: with the soul
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de Castro[103a] Socrates : Son of Cleinias, I think it must surprise you that I, the first of all your lovers, am the only one of them who has not given up his suit and thrown you over, and whereas they have all pestered you with their conversation I have not spoken one word to you for so many years. The cause of this has been nothing human, but a certain spiritual opposition, of whose power you shall be informed at some later time. However, it now opposes me no longer, [103b] so I have accordingly (…)
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Jowett: wisest
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroWisdom
Socrates : It is very much to the point : but he, good sir, like almost every other poet, speaks in riddles. For poetry as a whole is by nature [147c] inclined to riddling, and it is not every man who can apprehend it. And furthermore, besides having this natural tendency, when it gets hold of a grudging person who wishes not to show forth to us his own wisdom but to conceal it as much as possible, we find it an extraordinarily difficult matter to make out whatever this or that one (…) -
Jowett: conversation of the soul
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroStr. Are not thought and speech the same, with this exception, that what is called thought is the unuttered conversation of the soul with herself ? SOPHIST
Str. And seeing that language is true and false, and that thought is the conversation of the soul with herself, and opinion is the end of thinking, and imagination or phantasy is the union of sense and opinion, the inference is that some of them, since they are akin to language, should have an element of falsehood as well as of truth ? (…) -
Jowett: participation
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroParticipation, definition of, Soph. 248 C ; participation and predication, ib. 252. Soc. Then all men are good in the same way, and by participation in the same virtues ? MENO
He proceeded : I know nothing and can understand nothing of any other of those wise causes which are alleged ; and if a person says to me that the bloom of color, or form, or anything else of that sort is a source of beauty, I leave all that, which is only confusing to me, and simply and singly, and perhaps (…) -
Jowett: element of the soul
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroStr. First of all, she takes the eternal element of the soul and binds it with a divine cord, to which it is akin, and then the animal nature, and binds that with human cords. STATESMAN
And must not the like happen with the spirited or passionate element of the soul ? Will not the passionate man who carries his passion into action, be in the like case, whether he is envious and ambitious, or violent and contentious, or angry and discontented, if he be seeking to attain honor and victory and (…) -
Jowett: prayer
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroPrayer, offered to the Gods at the beginning of every enterprise, Tim. 27; may be misdirected, Laws 3. 687; 7. 801 B; of the fool, dangerous, ib. 3. 688; the nature of prayer, 2 Alcib. 138 et passim (cp. Eryx. 398);—prayer of Timaeus, Crit. 106:—prayers, phraseology of, Crat. 400 E ; at sacrifice, Laws 7. 801 A:— ’ Prayers’ (Iliad ix), Crat 438 C ; Hipp. Min. 364 E. [138a] Socrates : Alcibiades, are you on your way to offer a prayer to the god ? ALCIBIADES II
Alcibiades : But you have (…) -
Jowett: courageous soul
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroStr. The courageous soul when attaining this truth becomes civilized, and rendered more capable of partaking of justice ; but when not partaking, is inclined to brutality. Is not that true ? STATESMAN
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Jowett: prayers
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de Castroprayer
Socrates : The greatest of questions, Alcibiades, [138b] as I believe. For tell me, in Heaven’s name, do you not think that the gods sometimes grant in part, but in part refuse, what we ask of them in our private and public prayers, and gratify some people, but not others ? ALCIBIADES II
Socrates : So you see it is not safe either to accept casually what one is given, or to pray for one’s own advancement, if one is going to be injured in consequence, or deprived of one’s life (…) -
Jowett: soul and intelligence
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroTim. Let me tell you then why the creator made this world of generation. He was good, and the good can never have any jealousy of anything. And being free from jealousy, he desired that all things should be as like himself as they could be. This is in the truest sense the origin of creation and of the world, as we shall do well in believing on the testimony of wise men : God desired that all things should be good and nothing bad, so far as this was attainable. Wherefore also finding the (…)
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Jowett: praying
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de Castroprayer
Socrates : Then you would agree that one should take great precautions against falling unawares into the error of praying for great evils in the belief that they are good, while the gods happen to be disposed to grant freely what one is praying for ? Just as Oedipus, [138c] they say, suddenly prayed that his sons might divide their patrimony with the sword : it was open to him to pray that his present evils might by some means be averted, but he invoked others in addition to those (…) -
Jowett: soul is invisible
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroNow when the Creator had framed the soul according to his will, he formed within her the corporeal universe, and brought the two together, and united them centre to centre. The soul, interfused everywhere from the centre to the circumference of heaven, of which also she is the external envelopment, herself turning in herself, began a divine beginning of never ceasing and rational life enduring throughout all time. The body of heaven is visible, but the soul is invisible, and partakes of (…)
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Jowett: divinity
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: soul of the universe
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroThus he spake, and once more into the cup in which he had previously mingled the soul of the universe he poured the remains of the elements, and mingled them in much the same manner ; they were not, however, pure as before, but diluted to the second and third degree. And having made it he divided the whole mixture into souls equal in number to the stars, and assigned each soul to a star ; and having there placed them as in a chariot, he showed them the nature of the universe, and declared to (…)
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Jowett: division
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroAt last, after a good deal of reflection, Zeus discovered a way. He said : "Methinks I have a plan which will humble their pride and improve their manners ; men shall continue to exist, but I will cut them in two and then they will be diminished in strength and increased in numbers ; this will have the advantage of making them more profitable to us. They shall walk upright on two legs, and if they continue insolent and will not be quiet, I will split them again and they shall hop about on a (…)
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Jowett: revolutions of the soul
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroWhen the creator had made all these ordinances he remained in his own accustomed nature, and his children heard and were obedient to their father’s word, and receiving from him the immortal principle of a mortal creature, in imitation of their own creator they borrowed portions of fire, and earth, and water, and air from the world, which were hereafter to be restored — these they took and welded them together, not with the indissoluble chains by which they were themselves bound, but with (…)
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Jowett: divisions
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroSoc. And now I will endeavour to explain to you more clearly what I mean : The soul and body being two, have two arts corresponding to them : there is the art of politics attending on the soul ; and another art attending on the body, of which I know no single name, but which may be described as having two divisions, one of them gymnastic, and the other medicine. And in politics there is a legislative part, which answers to gymnastic, as justice does to medicine ; and the two parts run into (…)
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Jowett: vessel of the soul
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroWhen the creator had made all these ordinances he remained in his own accustomed nature, and his children heard and were obedient to their father’s word, and receiving from him the immortal principle of a mortal creature, in imitation of their own creator they borrowed portions of fire, and earth, and water, and air from the world, which were hereafter to be restored — these they took and welded them together, not with the indissoluble chains by which they were themselves bound, but with (…)