In the next place we have to consider that there are divers kinds of fire. There are, for example, first, flame ; and secondly, those emanations of flame which do not burn but only give light to the eyes ; thirdly, the remains of fire, which are seen in red-hot embers after the flame has been extinguished. There are similar differences in the air ; of which the brightest part is called the aether, and the most turbid sort mist and darkness ; and there are various other nameless kinds which (…)
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Jowett: Water
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Jowett: happy man
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroSocrates : 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 altogether. Yet we could tell of [141d] many ere now who, having desired sovereignty, and endeavored to secure it, with the idea of working for their good, have lost their lives by plots which their sovereignty has provoked. And I expect you are not unacquainted with certain events "of a day or two (…)
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Jowett: watchfulness
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroAth. And to what earthly rulers can they be compared, or who to them ? How in the less can we find an image of the greater ? Are they charioteers of contending pairs of steeds, or pilots of vessels ? Perhaps they might be compared to the generals of armies, or they might be likened to physicians providing against the diseases which make war upon the body, or to husbandmen observing anxiously the effects of the seasons on the growth of plants ; or I perhaps, to shepherds of flocks. For as we (…)
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Jowett: man who knows
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroSocrates : Nor, I conceive, a man who knows what war is in itself, without knowing when or for how long a time it is better to make war ? ALCIBIADES II
Socrates : Nor, again, a man who knows how to kill another, or seize his property, or make him an exile from his native land, without knowing when or to whom it is better so to behave ? ALCIBIADES II
[145c] Socrates : Then it is a man who knows something of this sort, and is assisted by knowledge of what is best, — and this is surely the (…) -
Jowett: wars
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroSoc. But, as you say, people regard the same things, some as just and others as unjust, — about these they dispute ; and so there arise wars and fightings among them. EUTHYPHRO
And when they consider all this, must not true philosophers make a reflection, of which they will speak to one another in such words as these : We have found, they will say, a path of speculation which seems to bring us and the argument to the conclusion that while we are in the body, and while the soul is mingled (…) -
Jowett: educated man
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroI next asked him if it was not impossible for the same person to learn in this way merely two of the arts, not to speak of many or the principal ones ; to which he replied : Do not conceive me, Socrates, [135d] to be stating that the philosopher must have accurate knowledge of each of the arts, like the actual adept in any of them ; I mean only so far as may be expected of a free and educated man : that is, he should be able to follow the explanations of the craftsman more readily than the (…)
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Jowett: warriors
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroThen Darius, accusing us and the Eretrians of having plotted against Sardis, dispatched fifty myriads of men in transports and warships, together with three hundred ships of war, and Datis as their commander ; [240b] and him the king ordered to bring back the Eretrians and Athenians in captivity, if he wished to keep his own head. He then sailed to Eretria against men who were amongst the most famous warriors in Greece at that time, and by no means few in number ; them he overpowered within (…)
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Jowett: free man
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de Castro[135b] At this the wiser one interjected : The finest and most suitable kinds of learning are those which will bring him the most reputation for philosophy ; and he will get most reputation if he appears well versed in all the arts, or if not in all, in as many of them, and those the most considerable, as he can, by learning so much of them as befits a free man to learn, that is, what belongs to the understanding rather than the handiwork of each. LOVERS
So then, Socrates, when I hear you (…) -
Jowett: warrior
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroSoc. And may not the same be said of a king ? a king will often be the son of a king, the good son or the noble son of a good or noble sire ; and similarly the off spring of every kind, in the regular course of nature, is like the parent, and therefore has the same name. Yet the syllables may be disguised until they appear different to the ignorant person, and he may not recognize them, although they are the same, just as any one of us would not recognize the same drugs under different (…)
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Jowett: just man
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroHence they are all the same, it seems, — king, despot, statesman, house-manager, master, and the temperate man and the just man ; and it is all one art, — the kingly, the despotic, the statesman’s, the master’s, the house-manager’s, and justice and temperance. LOVERS
Then he who was reputed to be their most powerful exponent of these matters answered me and said that this art is precisely that which, said he, you hear Socrates describing, — nothing else than justice. I then replied — "Do (…) -
Jowett: warm
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroAnd do they speak great things of the great, rejoined Euthydemus, and warm things of the warm ? EUTHYDEMUS
And if that which is cold were imperishable, when the warm principle came attacking the snow, must not the snow have retired whole and unmelted — for it could never have perished, nor could it have remained and admitted the heat ? PHAEDO
Again, if the uncooling or warm principle were imperishable, the fire when assailed by cold would not have perished or have been extinguished, but (…) -
Jowett: temperate man
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroHence they are all the same, it seems, — king, despot, statesman, house-manager, master, and the temperate man and the just man ; and it is all one art, — the kingly, the despotic, the statesman’s, the master’s, the house-manager’s, and justice and temperance. LOVERS
Then the wise or temperate man, and he only, will know himself, and be able to examine what he knows or does not know, and to see what others know and think that they know and do really know ; and what they do not know, and (…) -
Jowett: warfare
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroSoc. As to their origin, I believe that they are natives of this part of the world, and have migrated from Chios to Thurii ; they were driven out of Thurii, and have been living for many years past in these regions. As to their wisdom, about which you ask, Crito, they are wonderful-consummate ! I never knew what the true pancratiast was before ; they are simply made up of fighting, not like the two Acarnanian brothers who fight with their bodies only, but this pair of heroes, besides being (…)
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Jowett: sensible man
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroSocrates : Demodocus, your zeal is no wonder to me, if you suppose that I especially could be of use to him ; for I know of nothing for which a sensible man could be more zealous than for his own son’s utmost improvement. But how you came to form this opinion, that I would be better able to be of use to your son in his aim of becoming a good citizen than you would yourself, and how he came to suppose that I rather than yourself would be of use to him — this does fill me with wonder. For you, (…)
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Jowett: war
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroSocrates : Well, take the orators, for example : they either know, or think they know, how to advise us on various occasions — some about war and peace, and others about building walls or fitting up harbors ; [145a] and in a word, whatever the city does to another city or within herself, all comes about by the advice of the orators. ALCIBIADES II
Socrates : Nor, I conceive, a man who knows what war is in itself, without knowing when or for how long a time it is better to make war ? (…) -
Jowett: nature of man
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroAristophanes professed to open another vein of discourse ; he had a mind to praise Love in another way, unlike that either of Pausanias or Eryximachus. Mankind ; he said, judging by their neglect of him, have never, as I think, at all understood the power of Love. For if they had understood him they would surely have built noble temples and altars, and offered solemn sacrifices in his honour ; but this is not done, and most certainly ought to be done : since of all the gods he is the best (…)
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Jowett: wantonness
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroYou are a liar, Meletus, not believed even by yourself. For I cannot help thinking, O men of Athens, that Meletus is reckless and impudent, and that he has written this indictment in a spirit of mere wantonness and youthful bravado. Has he not compounded a riddle, thinking to try me ? He said to himself : — I shall see whether this wise Socrates will discover my ingenious contradiction, or whether I shall be able to deceive him and the rest of them. For he certainly does appear to me to (…)
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Jowett: man and woman
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroMen. I should say that health is the same, both in man and woman. MENO
At 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 (…) -
Jowett: wanton
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroThe course of the seasons is also full of both these principles ; and when, as I was saying, the elements of hot and cold, moist and dry, attain the harmonious love of one another and blend in temperance and harmony, they bring to men, animals, and plants health and plenty, and do them no harm ; whereas the wanton love, getting the upper hand and affecting the seasons of the year, is very destructive and injurious, being the source of pestilence, and bringing many other kinds of diseases on (…)
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Jowett: creation of man
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroCrit. Let me proceed to explain to you, Socrates, the order in which we have arranged our entertainment. Our intention is, that Timaeus, who is the most of an astronomer amongst us, and has made the nature of the universe his special study, should speak first, beginning with the generation of the world and going down to the creation of man ; next, I am to receive the men whom he has created of whom some will have profited by the excellent education which you have given them ; and then, in (…)