Category: Classics of Literature
composite animal in Book IX is an allegory of the parts of the soul. The noble captain and the ship and the true pilot in Book VI are a figure of the relation of the people to the philosophers in the State which has been described. Other figures, such as the dog (ii. 375 A, D;...
was nothing which I liked better than the regulation about poetry. The division of the soul throws a new light on our exclusion of imitation. I do not mind telling you in confid...
25. BOOK X.To the rejection of imitative poetry, which certainly ought not to be received; as I see far more clearly now that *595B* the parts of the soul have been distinguished.
18. BOOK III.*386A* Such then, I said, are our principles of theology--some tales are to be told, and others are not to be told to our disciples from their youth upwards, if we mean them to...
20. BOOK V.*449A* Such is the good and true City or State, and the good and true man is of the same pattern; and if this is right every other is wrong; and the evil is one which affects no...
16. BOOK IThe scene is laid in the house of Cephalus at the Piraeus; and the whole dialogue is narrated by Socrates the day after it actually took place to Timaeus, Hermocrates, Critias,...
21. BOOK VI.I suppose not, I said; and yet I believe that we might have had a better view of both of them if the discussion could have been confined to this one subject and if there were no...
22. BOOK VII.*514A* And now, I said, let me show in a figure how far our nature is enlightened or unenlightened:--Behold! human beings living in a underground den, which has a mouth open tow...
19. BOOK IV.*419A* Here Adeimantus interposed a question: How would you answer, Socrates, said he, if a person were to say that you are making[1] these people miserable, and that they are t...
17. BOOK II.*357A* With these words I was thinking that I had made an end of the discussion; but the end, in truth, proved to be only a beginning. For Glaucon, who is always the most pugnac...
23. BOOK VIII.*543A* And so, Glaucon, we have arrived at the conclusion that in the perfect State wives and children are to be in common; and that all education and the pursuits of war and pe...
24. BOOK IX.*571A* Last of all comes the tyrannical man; about whom we have once more to ask, how is he formed out of the democratical? and how does he live, in happiness or in misery?
10. BOOK VI. *484* Having determined that the many have no knowledge of truebeing, and have no clear patterns in their minds of justice, beauty, truth, and that philosophers have such patterns, we have now to ask whether they or the many shall be rulers...
11. BOOK VII. *514* And now I will describe in a figure the enlightenment orunenlightenment of our nature:--Imagine human beings living in an underground den which is open towards the light; they have been there from childhood, having their necks and le...
6. BOOK III. *386* There is another motive in purifying religion, which is tobanish fear; for no man can be courageous who is {xl} afraid of death, or who believes the tales which are repeated by the poets concerning the world below. They must be gently...
12. BOOK VIII. *543* And so we have arrived at the conclusion, that in theperfect State wives and children are to be in common; and the education and pursuits of men and women, both in war and peace, are to be common, and kings are to be philosophers...
8. BOOK IV. *419* Adeimantus said: 'Suppose a person to argue, Socrates, thatyou make your citizens miserable, and this by their own free-will; they are the lords of the city, and yet instead of having, like other men, lands and houses and money of their...
3. BOOK II. Thrasymachus is pacified, *357* but the intrepid Glaucon insistson continuing the argument. He is not satisfied with the indirect manner in which, at the end of the last book, Socrates had disposed of the question 'Whether the just or the un...
14. BOOK IX. *571* Last of all comes the tyrannical man, about whom we have toenquire, Whence is he, and how does he live--in happiness or in misery? There is, however, a previous question of the nature and number of the appetites, which I should like to...
9. BOOK V. *449* I was going to enumerate the four forms of vice or declinein states, when Polemarchus--he was sitting a little farther from me than Adeimantus--taking him by the coat and leaning towards him, said something in an undertone, of which I...
2. BOOK I. The Republic opens with a truly Greek scene--a festival in honourof the goddess Bendis which is held in the Piraeus; to this is added the promise of an equestrian torch-race in the evening. The whole work is supposed to be recited by Socrates...
13. Book ix; the hint to the poets that if they are the friends of tyrantsthere is no place for them in a constitutional State, and that they are too clever not to see the propriety of their own expulsion; the continuous image of the drones who are of...
4. xi. 916-7, Adulteration; 923-4, Wills and Bequests; 930, Begging; Eryxias,(though not Plato's), Value and Demand; Republic, ii. 369 ff., Division of Labour. The last subject, and also the origin of Retail Trade, is treated with admirable lucidity in t...
1. Book VII is a recapitulation of the divisions of knowledge in Book VI. Thecomposite animal in Book IX is an allegory of the parts of the soul. The noble captain and the ship and the true pilot in Book VI are a figure of the relation of the people to t...
5. xii. 10), allowing for the difference between Greek and Christian modes ofspeaking. To this is opposed the lie in words, which is only such a deception as may occur in a play or poem, or allegory or figure of speech, or in any sort of accommodation,--...
7. Book x. (5) The companion pictures of the lover of litigation and thevaletudinarian (405), the satirical jest about the maxim of Phocylides (407), the manner in which {lvi} the image of the gold and silver citizens is taken up into the subject (4...