epub |eng | 2005-10-27 | Author:Plato [Plato]

‘You really mustn't think,’ I said, ‘that I have any aim in asking you all these questions beyond a simple desire to investigate; to investigate all aspects of being good, ...

epub |eng | 2016-09-08 | Author:Plato [Plato]

epub, pdf |eng | 2002-11-14 | Author:Plato [Plato]

epub |eng | 2011-02-28 | Author:Plato & Donald J. Zeyl [Zeyl , Donald J.]

[493] Perhaps in reality we’re dead. Once I even heard one of the wise men say that we are now dead and that our bodies are our tombs, and that ...

epub |eng | 2004-10-11 | Author:Plato [Plato]

Footnotes 25: Phlius, to which Echecrates belonged, was a town of Sicyonia, in Peloponnesus. 26: A Pythagorean of Crotona. 27: Namely, "that it is better to die than to live." ...

epub |eng | 1990-03-15 | Author:Plato [Plato]

True judgement in the Dream Closer to hand than any external source of inspiration is the context established for the Dream by its position in the dialogue. I hope that ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-09-01 | Author:Plato

1 Socrates has in fact given a highly incomplete summary of the best city in the Republic. He leaves out the concern for the proper ordering of the individual soul; ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1921-01-02 | Author:Plato & John McDowell

159a10-11. The reference is to 156a6-7. 159a13-14. The reference is to 156d5-6; cf. also 154a2-8. The principle stated here could be represented as a consequence of that suggested by the ...

epub |eng | 2019-02-14 | Author:George K. Strodach

I. ORIGIN OF FIRE AND COOKING. It was the lightning bolt that first brought down fire to earth for mankind, and from it is disseminated every fire and flame. Many ...

epub |eng | | Author:George Santayana [Santayana, George]

PART IV Goethe’s Faust IV GOETHE’S FAUST IN APPROACHING THE THIRD OF OUR PHILOSOPHICAL POETS, there is a scruple that may cross the mind. Lucretius was undoubtedly a philosophical poet; ...

azw3 |eng | 2013-05-05 | Author:Theodore Gracyk [Gracyk, Theodore]

Issues to think about 1. Explain the distinction between contingent and essential properties. Next, select two objects that you can see at this moment. (Do not select artworks.) Distinguish between ...

epub |eng | 2000-09-25 | Author:Plato [Plato]

* * * 1 The reference is to 423e–424a. 2 The Greek expression used by Thrasymachus, meaning ‘to prospect for gold’, was similarly proverbial of engaging in a wasteful task ...

epub |eng | | Author:Robert Frodeman,Adam Briggle

Chapter 5 Bioethics As species of applied philosophy, environmental ethics and bioethics occupy different places in our social imagination. Environmental ethics strikes many as an arcane subject, of concern mostly ...

epub |eng | 2009-06-01 | Author:Plato

But, setting aside the question of public opinion, there seems to be something wrong in asking a favour of a judge, and thus procuring an acquittal, instead of informing and ...

epub |eng | | Author:Charles H Patterson

performed under compulsion. Moreover, there is a distinction between an unjust act and a man who acts unjustly. The motives behind an act can render the agent unjust even if ...