self-sufficiency is both the end and the best <good>

'It is to be expected that Greeks rule over foreigners', assuming that the foreigner and the slave are natu-rally the same

this is the one called the city, the political community.

For this is the form, and the form is the principle, both in the products of craft and equally in naturally constituted things.

The primary cause is apparently the one that we say is for something.

in the case of each property that belongs to specifically different animals but is not itself different in each species.

hot and cold

Moreover

Now the causes whose results might be matters of luck are bound to be indeterminate.

demonstrations are derived

demonstration

Do you think that a god is a sorcerer, able d to appear in different forms at different times, sometimes changing him-self from his own form into many shapes, sometimes deceiving us by making us think that he has done it?

We overlooked the fact that there are natures of the sort we thought impossible, natures in which these opposites are indeed combined.

Then our job, it seems, is to select, if we can, the kind of nature suited to guard the city.

Now, isn't it of the greatest importance that warfare be practiced well?

But it's obvious that they do so only because they lack the power to do injustice, for the first of them to acquire it is the first to do as much injustice as he can.

The various sayings suggest that there is no advantage in my being just if I'm not also thought just, while the troubles and penalties of being just are apparent

only when compelled to be

just without being just.

But I'm not yet satisfied by the argument on either side. I want to know what justice and injustice are and what power each itself has when it's by itself in the soul.

love is, like everything else, complex: considered simply in itself, it isneither honorable nor a disgrace—its character depends entirely on thebehavior it gives rise to.

Love is not in himself noble and worthy ofpraise; that depends on whether the sentiments he produces in us arethemselves noble

Only she was willing to die in place of her husband, although hiscfather and mother were still alive.

What I say is this: if a man in love is found doing something shameful,or accepting shameful treatment because he is a coward and makes nodefense, then nothing would give him more pain than being seen by theboy he love

That the good soulis harmonized and, being a harmony, has within itself another harmony,whereas the evil soul is both itself a lack of harmony and has no otherwithin itself?

This then is death, the destruction of the soul, sincethe body is always being destroyed

Then if someone breaks the lyre, cuts or breaks thestrings, and then insists, using the same argument as you, that the har-mony must still exist and is not destroyed because it would be impossiblefor the lyre and the strings, which are mortal, still to exist when the stringsare broken

As I say, the lovers of learning know that philosophy gets hold of83their soul when it is in that state, then gently encourages it and tries to freeit by showing them that investigation through the eyes is full of deceit, asis that through the ears and the other senses.

invisible always remains the same

I believe, Anytus, that there are many men here who are good at public affairs, and that there have been as many in the past, but have they been good teachers of their own virtue?

Perhaps you are a wizard, Anytus, for I wonder, from what you yourself say, how else you know about these things.

There is virtue for every action and every age, for every task of ours and everyone of us

as if there were a dearth of 71 wisdom, and wisdom seems to have departed hence to go to you

don’t know what else to call it, since I myself certainly don’t possess thateknowledge, and whoever says I do is lying and speaking in order toslander me.

In any case, none of them is true. And if you’ve heard from anyone thatI undertake to educate people and charge fees, that’s not true either. A

makes theweaker argument the stronger

if you hear memaking my defense using the same sort of language that I’m accustomedto use both in the marketplace next to the bankers’ tables—where many ofyou have heard me—and also in other places, please don’t be surprised orcreate an uproar on that account. For the fact is that this is the first time I’veappeared before a law court, although I’m seventy years old. So the lan-dguage of this place is totally foreign to me.

f course.

matter

o, on your account, Euthyphro, the same things would beboth pious and impious.Euthyphro: Apparently

nd haven’t we also said that the gods quarrel and differwith one another, and that there’s mutual hostility among them

You see, you said, Ibelieve, that it was by virtue of one characteristic that the impieties areimpious, and the pieties pious. Or don’t you remember?

So he has written thisindictment against you for making innovations in religious matters andcomes before the court to slander you, knowing that such things are easyto misrepresent to the majority of people

In fact, heseems to me to be the only one who’s starting up in politics correctly. For itis correct to take care of the young first, to make them the best possible,djust as it’s reasonable for a good farmer to take care of the young plantsfirst and all the others afterward.

5, 3e3), a self-proclaimed authorityon Greek religion (4e4 –5a2), who takes very literally the stories embodied in itsmyths

Protagoras made the weaker and stronger argument andtaught his students to blame and praise the same person.

All the following belong to the bastard: sight, hearing, smell,taste, touch.

matter.

By “void” people mean an interval in which there is no per-ceptible body. Since they believe that everything that is is body, theysay that void is that in which there is nothing at all.... So it is neces-sary to prove4

Of these, the one, “what-is,”is full and solid, the other, “what-is-not,” is empty [void] and rare.(This is why they say that what-is is no more than what-is-not, becausethe void is no less than body is.)

oid is wherethe atoms are not, and atoms are able to move into the empty.

balance

The elements of number are the even and the odd, and ofthese the latter is limited and the former unlimited.

He also declares that in the beginning humans were bornfrom animals of a different kind, since other animals quickly manageon their own, and humans alone require lengthy nursing. For thisreason they would not have survived if they had been like this at thebeginning.

They were called Sophists, and they wereindependent and often itinerant teachers of wisdom and practical politicalskills. Many of them were accomplished and flamboyant rhetoricians

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