Eco-Republic by Melissa Lane

Author:Melissa Lane
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2012-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

But, Socrates points out, Callicles’ appetites are never actually sated. His view of the happy life is of a life in which he must continually feed his recurrent hunger, scratch his itches, slake his sexual desires. Socrates tells the following story to dramatize the paradoxical misery of such a life.

SOCRATES: ‘Suppose there are two men, each of whom has many jars. The jars belonging to one of them are sound and full, one with wine, another with honey, a third with milk, and many others with lots of other things. And suppose that the sources of each of these things are scarce and difficult to come by, procurable only with much toil and trouble. Now the one man, having filled up his jars, doesn’t pour anything more into them and gives them no further thought. He can relax over them. As for the other one, he too has resources that can be procured, though with difficulty, but his containers are leaky and rotten. He’s forced to keep on filling them, day and night, or else he suffers extreme pain.’ (Gorgias, 493d–4a)

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.