azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2000-09-25 | Author:Plato & G. R. F. Ferrari & Tom Griffith

BOOK II. With these words I was thinking that I had made an end of the discussion; but the end, in truth, proved to be only a beginning. For Glaucon, ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2010-10-21 | Author:Aristotle

ZETA 9 This chapter is a kind of appendix to the argument of the previous two, and especially to the general account of composite production in chapter 7. In that ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-21 | Author:Aristotle

Nor is consistency greatly helped when Aristotle announces at 405b11–12 that the fundamental features of the soul are not in fact two but three, the third, in addition to those ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2000-11-15 | Author:Aristotle & R. F. Stalley & Ernest Barker [Aristotle & Stalley, R. F. & Barker, Ernest]

CHAPTER 7 3. Aristocracies. Here changes are due to a policy of narrowing the circle of the government. The collapse of aristocracies—as also of ‘constitutional governments’ (polities), which are closely ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-07-27 | Author:Plato

Still, I must implore you, Socrates, said Glaucon, not to turn away just as you are reaching the goal; if you will only give such an explanation of the good ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-04-13 | Author:Plato, Grube, G. M. A., Cooper, John M.

1. The word apology is a transliteration, not a translation, of the Greek apologia, which means defense. There is certainly nothing apologetic about the speech. 2. Jurors were selected by ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2009-11-27 | Author:Plato

THE RIGHT USE OF LEISURE Now to deal with how this doctrine should be taught and [803a] handed on. What method of instruction should we use? Who should be taught, ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1991-10-01 | Author:Plato

“For he couldn’t be ashamed a second time,” he said. “And I suppose,” I said, “that if he’s caught, he’s given death.” “Necessarily.” “And surely it’s plain that this leader ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2006-01-25 | Author:Plutarch

ON GOD’S SLOWNESS TO PUNISH [548A] [1] Once our Epicurus1 had finished speaking, Quietus,2 he [B] didn’t give anyone a chance to respond, but since we happened to be at ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-05-15 | Author:Xenophon [Xenophon]

action of great peril, ought he not to send the most ambitious, because they are the men who, out of a desire of glory, rush into the midst of dangers? ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-05-11 | Author:Xenophon [Xenophon]

(5) See Wesley's anthem, Eccles. xliv. 1, "Let us now praise famous men and our fathers that begat us." Per. All that you say, Socrates, is most true, but do ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-05-11 | Author:Xenophon

VII After this they marched into the country of the Taochians five stages—thirty parasangs—and provisions failed; for the Taochians lived in strong places, into which they had carried up all ...

epub |eng | 2012-05-11 | Author:Xenophon [Xenophon]

(35) Or, "But to pass on, he was already, may be, eighty years of age, when it came under his observation...." (36) This same Tachos. (37) See "Hell." VII. i. ...

epub |eng | 2011-09-24 | Author:Marcus Aurelius & Robin Hard & Christopher Gill [Aurelius, Marcus & Hard, Robin & Gill, Christopher]

BOOK 10 1. Will there ever come a day, my soul, when you are good, and simple, and at one, and naked, and clearer to see than the body which ...

epub |eng | 2012-10-11 | Author:Bruno Snell

To stand up for one’s own country, to fight for interests transcending the welfare of the individual: this is the advice of Callinus, and it carries special conviction because of ...