Greek & Roman
epub |eng | 2010-06-28 | Author:Plato [Plato]

YOUNG SOCRATES: What sort of an image? STRANGER: Well, such as this:—Every man will reflect that he suffers strange things at the hands of both of them; the physician saves ...
( Category: Greek & Roman March 8,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Prior, William J. [William J. Prior]

The philosopher-king I noted above that Plato's account of the virtues is over-general, and in particular that it does not explain what makes the guardians wise. This is a topic ...
( Category: Greek & Roman March 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-09 | Author:Kiernan, Thomas; Kiernan, Thomas;

That which is a cause through itself is always prior to that which is a cause through another. PHY—8. 5. 257a30-31 There are naturally two causes of action, thought and ...
( Category: Philosophy & Social Aspects February 29,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:St. George Stock [Stock, St. George]

PHYSIC. We have now before us the main facts with regard to the Stoic view of man's nature, but we have yet to see in what setting they were put. ...
( Category: Greek & Roman February 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-05 | Author:Lucius Annaeus Seneca [Seneca, Lucius Annaeus]

Letter XXXVII. On Allegiance to Virtue 1.You have promised to be a good man; you have enlisted under oath; that is the strongest chain which will hold you to a ...
( Category: Greek & Roman February 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-05-14 | Author:Brad Inwood

4. ‘ … it is by their own natures that the cylinder rolls and the cone spins’. (Cicero, On Fate 42) But one might well wonder whether that preserves human ...
( Category: Greek & Roman January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-15 | Author:Carl A. Huffman

7 Aristoxenus’ Biographical Method* Stefan Schorn 1. Introduction The Negative Assessment of Aristoxenus’ Biographies in Modern Scholarship is Highly Influenced by the Verdict Pronounced by Friedrich Leo More than a ...
( Category: Medieval January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-10-18 | Author:Ryan Holiday & Stephen Hanselman [Holiday, Ryan & Hanselman, Stephen]

July 15th DOING THE RIGHT THING IS ENOUGH “When you’ve done well and another has benefited by it, why like a fool do you look for a third thing on ...
( Category: Motivation & Self-Improvement January 16,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2016-03-10 | Author:Roy Jackson

The true philosopher ‘With any seed or growing thing,’ I [Socrates] said, ‘no matter whether it’s a plant or an animal, we know that if it hasn’t had the particular ...
( Category: Greek & Roman January 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2009-02-13 | Author:Volume 35

( Category: Greek & Roman August 21,2019 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-08 | Author:Burt, Mary E. [Burt, Mary E.]

CHAPTER XIV A Tale with Two Heroes THERE is a beautiful lake in the West in the shape of a big foot. Its banks are gay with wild flowers and ...
( Category: Greek & Roman June 8,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-02-13 | Author:Aristotle [Aristotle]

( Category: Greece June 2,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-05-15 | Author:Helfer, Ariel;

Morality, Piety, and Philosophy (143b–144c) Socrates’ failure to get Alcibiades to examine the goodness of the political life, or to see the need to do so, does not necessarily mean ...
( Category: History & Theory May 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 2004-04-23 | Author:Plato; Partenie, Catalin;

He is the winged one that mortals call “Eros”, But since he must grow wings the gods call him “Pteros”.* c You can believe this or not, as you wish. ...
( Category: Greek & Roman April 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 2005-04-22 | Author:Plato, Plato; Waterfield, Robin;

MENO MENO: I wonder whether you can tell me, Socrates, whether excellence is teachable or, if not teachable, at least a product of habituation. Or perhaps it isn’t the kind ...
( Category: Greek & Roman April 23,2017 )