A Selection of Passages From Plato for English Readers volume 1
A Selection of Passages From Plato for English Readers volume 1
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Would a painter be any the worse because, after having delineated with consummate art an ideal of a perfectly beautiful man, he was unable to show that any such man could ever have existed ?
He would be none the worse.
Well, and were we not creating an ideal of a perfect State ?
To be sure.
And is our theory a worse theory because we are unable to prove the possibility of a city being ordered in the manner described ?
Surely not, he replied.
That is the truth, I said. But if, at your request, I... am to try and show how and under what conditions the possibility is highest, I must ask you, having this in view, to repeat your former admissions.
What admissions ?
I want to know whether ideals are ever fully realized 473 in language ? Does not the word express more than the fact, and must not the actual, whatever a man may think, always, in the nature of things, fall short of the truth ? What do you say ?
I agree.
Then you must not insist on my proving that the actual State will in every respect coincide with the ideal : if we E 2 52 THE REPUBLIC are only able to discover how a city may be governed nearly as we proposed, you will admit that we have discovered the possibility which you demand ; and will be contented.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Would a painter be any the worse because, after having delineated with consummate art an ideal of a perfectly beautiful man, he was unable to show that any such man could ever have existed ?
He would be none the worse.
Well, and were we not creating an ideal of a perfect State ?
To be sure.
And is our theory a worse theory because we are unable to prove the possibility of a city being ordered in the manner described ?
Surely not, he replied.
That is the truth, I said. But if, at your request, I... am to try and show how and under what conditions the possibility is highest, I must ask you, having this in view, to repeat your former admissions.
What admissions ?
I want to know whether ideals are ever fully realized 473 in language ? Does not the word express more than the fact, and must not the actual, whatever a man may think, always, in the nature of things, fall short of the truth ? What do you say ?
I agree.
Then you must not insist on my proving that the actual State will in every respect coincide with the ideal : if we E 2 52 THE REPUBLIC are only able to discover how a city may be governed nearly as we proposed, you will admit that we have discovered the possibility which you demand ; and will be contented.
What to read after A Selection of Passages From Plato for English Readers volume 1?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Plato to read onlineMoreLess
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