Termo: Plato – Jowett

Soc. Doxa is either derived from dioxis (pursuit), and expresses the march of the soul in the pursuit of knowledge, or from the shooting of a bow (toxon) ; the latter is more likely, and is confirmed by oiesis (thinking), which is only oisis (moving), and implies the movement of the soul to the essential…

Socrates : 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…

Socrates : 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…

And 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,…

But what would you say of equal portions of wood and stone, or other material equals ? and what is the impression produced by them ? Are they equals in the same sense as ABSOLUTE EQUALITY ? or do they fall short of this in a measure ? PHAEDO And has not this been our…

In the first place, I think, Socrates, that you, or any one who maintains the existence of ABSOLUTE ESSENCES, will admit that they cannot exist in us. PARMENIDES

Soc. 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 ;…

And 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…

Or did you ever reach them with any other bodily sense ? (and I speak not of these alone, but of ABSOLUTE GREATNESS, and health, and strength, and of the essence or true nature of everything). Has the reality of them ever been perceived by you through the bodily organs ? or rather, is not…

Then may we not say, Simmias, that if, as we are always repeating, there is an absolute beauty, and goodness, and essence in general, and to this, which is now discovered to be a previous condition of our being, we refer all our sensations, and with this compare them — assuming this to have a…

Well, but there is another thing, Simmias : Is there or is there not an ABSOLUTE JUSTICE ? PHAEDO True, he replied ; but what of that ? I was only going to ask whether, if we have discovered them, we are to require that the just man should in nothing fail of ABSOLUTE JUSTICE…

And 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…

I understand, said Socrates, and quite accept your account. But tell me, Zeno, do you not further think that there is an idea of likeness in itself, and another idea of unlikeness, which is the opposite of likeness, and that in these two, you and I and all other things to which we apply the…

But, consider : — Are not the ABSOLUTE SAME, and the absolute other, opposites to one another ? PARMENIDES

I will tell you, I said : The starry heaven which we behold is wrought upon a visible ground, and therefore, although the fairest and most perfect of visible things, must necessarily be deemed inferior far to the true motions of ABSOLUTE SWIFTNESS and absolute slowness, which are relative to each other, and carry with…

And 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…

All 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…

For those who suppose all things to be in motion conceive the greater part of nature to be a mere receptacle ; and they say that there is a penetrating power which passes through all this, and is the instrument of creation in all, and is the subtlest and swiftest element ; for if it…

For those who suppose all things to be in motion conceive the greater part of nature to be a mere receptacle ; and they say that there is a penetrating power which passes through all this, and is the instrument of creation in all, and is the subtlest and swiftest element ; for if it…

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…