Plato's GorgiasBell, 1864 - 146 pages |
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Page vi
... true spirit of an author can be con- veyed only in his own words , that is , in a literal translation ; and this view is I think supported by the fact that all those translations which are gene- rally recognised as the best are literal ...
... true spirit of an author can be con- veyed only in his own words , that is , in a literal translation ; and this view is I think supported by the fact that all those translations which are gene- rally recognised as the best are literal ...
Page xx
... true subject of his dialogues , yet as representing the earliest opinion as to the nature of their contents of native and probably well informed Platonists , should not I think be entirely set aside ; and in this particular instance ...
... true subject of his dialogues , yet as representing the earliest opinion as to the nature of their contents of native and probably well informed Platonists , should not I think be entirely set aside ; and in this particular instance ...
Page xxi
... true views of Knowledge and Science , of Justice and the Good , are to be sought for in the Constructive or Demonstrative Dialogues , the Philebus and Republic . In the Gorgias , as in the Theatetus , the process is indirect or ...
... true views of Knowledge and Science , of Justice and the Good , are to be sought for in the Constructive or Demonstrative Dialogues , the Philebus and Republic . In the Gorgias , as in the Theatetus , the process is indirect or ...
Page xxii
... true meaning . The functions which it assumed in the hands of its earliest Professors , and the prominent part that it consequently plays in the Gorgias , will be best understood from the account that they are made to give of themselves ...
... true meaning . The functions which it assumed in the hands of its earliest Professors , and the prominent part that it consequently plays in the Gorgias , will be best understood from the account that they are made to give of themselves ...
Page xxv
... true arts of the statesman , legislation and the administration of justice , as cookery does to medicine , or the art of adorning the outside of the person so as to produce a deceitful appearance of health and comeliness , the ...
... true arts of the statesman , legislation and the administration of justice , as cookery does to medicine , or the art of adorning the outside of the person so as to produce a deceitful appearance of health and comeliness , the ...
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Page xix - Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, These three alone lead life to sovereign power. Yet not for power (power of herself Would come uncall'd for) but to live by law, Acting the law we live by without fear ; And, because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.