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Adrian Buck
is on page 832 of 1743
"...there is from of quarrel between philosophy and poetry" and the quarrel is over who should offer guidance to order our entire lives, the poet or the philosopher. Given Pluto's bent for objectivity and measurement, the same quarrel manifested itself in the 20th century as C. P. Snow's two cultures.
— Oct 13, 2016 07:52AM
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Adrian Buck
is on page 838 of 1743
The final judgement, purgatory, heaven and hell: 350 years before Christ.
— Oct 14, 2016 07:36AM
Adrian Buck
is on page 833 of 1743
"...our soul is immortal and never perishes..." - and this why psyche is translated as soul all through Plato.
— Oct 14, 2016 07:33AM
Adrian Buck
is on page 832 of 1743
"[Poetic imitation] waters and fosters these feelings when what we ought to do is dry them up."
— Oct 13, 2016 07:46AM
Adrian Buck
is on page 827 of 1743
"...the imitator [poet] knows nothing worth mentioning of the things he imitates, but that imitation is a former of play, not to be taken seriously," creativity vs reason
— Oct 13, 2016 07:43AM
Adrian Buck
is on page 821 of 1743
"...for this same handicraftsman is not only able to make all implements, but produces all plants and animals, including himself, and thereto earth and heaven and the gods and all things in heaven and in Hades under the earth." - God the creator + +
— Oct 13, 2016 07:39AM
Adrian Buck
is on page 818 of 1743
...it is better for everyone to be governed by the divine and the intelligent, preferably indwelling and his own, but in default of that imposed from without.." - birth of authoritarianism?
— Oct 12, 2016 06:27AM
Adrian Buck
is on page 815 of 1743
"...if one tries to express the extent of the of the interval between the king and the tyrant in respect of true pleasure he will find on completion of the multiplication that he lives seven hundred and twenty-nine times as happily..."
— Oct 12, 2016 06:20AM
Adrian Buck
is on page 805 of 1743
"...individual wealthy private citizens in our states who possess many slaves. For these resemble the tyrant in being rulers over many..." - Plato condemns slavery?
— Oct 06, 2016 07:14AM
Adrian Buck
is on page 802 of 1743
"Oh, they just steal, break into houses, cut purses, strip men of their garments, plunder temples, and kidnap, and if they are fluent speakers they become sycophants and bear false witness and take brides."
— Oct 06, 2016 07:11AM
