Gorgias
Gorgias
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There also occur in Plato continuous images; some of them extend overseveral pages, appearing and reappearing at intervals: such as the beesstinging and stingless (paupers and thieves) in the Eighth Book ofthe Republic, who are generated in the transition from timocracy tooligarchy: the sun, which is to the visible world what the idea of goodis to the intellectual, in the Sixth Book of the Republic: the compositeanimal, having the form of a man, but containing under a human skin alion and a man...y-headed monster (Republic): the great beast, i. E. Thepopulace: and the wild beast within us, meaning the passions which arealways liable to break out: the animated comparisons of the degradationof philosophy by the arts to the dishonoured maiden, and of the tyrantto the parricide, who 'beats his father, having first taken away hisarms': the dog, who is your only philosopher: the grotesque and ratherpaltry image of the argument wandering about without a head (Laws), which is repeated, not improved, from the Gorgias: the argumentpersonified as veiling her face (Republic), as engaged in a chase, asbreaking upon us in a first, second and third wave:--on these figuresof speech the changes are rung many times over.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
There also occur in Plato continuous images; some of them extend overseveral pages, appearing and reappearing at intervals: such as the beesstinging and stingless (paupers and thieves) in the Eighth Book ofthe Republic, who are generated in the transition from timocracy tooligarchy: the sun, which is to the visible world what the idea of goodis to the intellectual, in the Sixth Book of the Republic: the compositeanimal, having the form of a man, but containing under a human skin alion and a man...y-headed monster (Republic): the great beast, i. E. Thepopulace: and the wild beast within us, meaning the passions which arealways liable to break out: the animated comparisons of the degradationof philosophy by the arts to the dishonoured maiden, and of the tyrantto the parricide, who 'beats his father, having first taken away hisarms': the dog, who is your only philosopher: the grotesque and ratherpaltry image of the argument wandering about without a head (Laws), which is repeated, not improved, from the Gorgias: the argumentpersonified as veiling her face (Republic), as engaged in a chase, asbreaking upon us in a first, second and third wave:--on these figuresof speech the changes are rung many times over.
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