Greek Thinkers: book IV. Socrates and the Socratics. book v. Plato. 1905C. Scribner's sons, 1905 |
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Страница 112 - No one pretends that actions should be as free as opinions. On the contrary, even opinions lose their immunity when the circumstances in which they are expressed are such as to constitute their expression a positive instigation to some mischievous act.
Страница 79 - A fruit of unripe wisdom, and he himself is ignorant of what he is laughing at, or what he is about — for that is, and ever will be, the best of sayings, That the useful is the noble and the hurtful is the base.
Страница 47 - Of the doings and sufferings of the enduring man' while he was on the expedition. One morning he was thinking about something which he could not resolve; he would not give it up, but continued thinking from early dawn until noon — there he stood fixed in thought; and at noon attention was drawn to him, and the rumour ran through the wondering crowd that Socrates had been standing and thinking about something ever since the break of day. At last, in the evening after supper, some lonians out of...
Страница 83 - Such extension of knowledge lay in the investigation of things. Things being investigated, knowledge became complete. Their knowledge being complete, their thoughts were sincere. Their thoughts being sincere, their hearts were then rectified.
Страница 25 - Well, then, we Athenians will use no fine words; we will not go out of our way to prove at length that we have a right to rule, because we overthrew the Persians; or that we attack you now because we are suffering any injury at your hands. We should not convince you if we did; nor must you expect to convince us by arguing that, although a colony of the Lacedaemonians, you have taken no part in their expeditions, or that you have never done us any wrong. But...
Страница 112 - An opinion that corn dealers are starvers of the poor, or that private property is robbery, ought to be unmolested when simply circulated through the press, but may justly incur punishment when delivered orally to an excited mob assembled before the house of a corn dealer, or when handed about among the same mob in the form of a placard.
Страница 26 - ... forgiveness. In the same year in which the Spartans vented their rage on the unfortunate Plataeans, a similar bloodthirsty sentence was passed by the Athenians on the inhabitants of Mitylene in Lesbos, a city which had broken faith with the confederation. It was resolved that all capable of bearing arms should be put to death, and that the women and children should be sold into slavery. But a wholesome revulsion of feeling soon followed. The horrible decree was rescinded by a fresh vote of the...
Страница 234 - ... Theaet. Not as yet. Soc. Then you will be obliged to me if I help you to unearth the hidden 'truth' of a famous man or school. Theaet. To be sure, I shall be very much obliged Soc. Take a look round, then, and see that none of the uninitiated are listening. Now by the uninitiated I mean the people who believe in nothing but what they can grasp in their hands, and who will not allow that action or generation or anything invisible can have real existence. Theaet. Yes, indeed, Socrates, they are...
Страница 47 - Socrates had been standing and thinking about something ever since the break of day. At last, in the evening after supper, some lonians out of curiosity (I should explain that this was not in winter but in summer), brought out their mats and slept in the open air that they might watch him and see whether he would stand all night. There he stood all night until the following morning ; and with the return of light he offered up a prayer to the sun, and went his way.