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  • We see what we see because these ghosts show it to us, ghosts of Moses and Christ and the Buddha, and Plato, and Descartes, and Rousseau and Jefferson and Lincoln, on and on and on.†   (source)
  • Plato, Sophocles, Homer, Dryden, Coleridge, Shelley, Shaw.†   (source)
  • Now we are going to meet the three great classical philosophers, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle.†   (source)
  • In Plato's allegory of the metals, the philosopher classifies men into groups of gold, silver, and lead.†   (source)
  • Plato, Euthyphro†   (source)
  • Then Gladys, the new pantry maid, began to sing: Yo tiro la cuchara, Yo tiw el tenedor Yo tiro to'lo'plato' Yme voypa' Nueva Yof.†   (source)
  • I remember something Mrs. Harbor once said on one of her crazy tangents in English: that Plato believed that the whole world—everything we can see—was just like shadows on a cave wall.†   (source)
  • Nico had once read a story from Plato, who claimed that in the ancient times, all humans had been a combination of male and female.†   (source)
  • It comes from Plato's Republic.†   (source)
  • Plato!†   (source)
  • He could quote glibly from Plato, Nietzsche, Montaigne, Theodore Roosevelt, the Marquis de Sade and Warren G. Harding.†   (source)
  • The woman from the bulrush basket or the woman from Plato's myth?†   (source)
  • His voice stirred everyone like a trumpet as he spoke these words: but when he added under his breath "It's all in Plato, all in Plato: bless me, what do they teach them at these schools!" the older ones laughed.†   (source)
  • Plato's dialogues, to be precise.†   (source)
  • He read Cicero, Tacitus, and others of his Roman heroes in Latin, and Plato and Thucydides in the original Greek, which he considered the supreme language.†   (source)
  • A benevolent dictator is best, as Plato himself realized.†   (source)
  • This one advertised itself with names carved in the granite frieze above its broad front: HOMER, HERODOTUS, SOPHOCLES, PLATO, ARISTOTLE, DEMOSTHENES, CICERO, VERGIL.†   (source)
  • It was a question pertaining to Plato's metaphysics, which Plato hadn't had the sense to ask of himself.†   (source)
  • Can you talk about Plato and Giordano Bruno?†   (source)
  • Plato, in his Symposium, describes Socrates and Aristophanes engaged in friendly conversation.†   (source)
  • Mannie, this little girl is Wyoming Knott and she came all the way from Plato to tell us how we're doing in Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • Plato.†   (source)
  • Plato would have approved of him as an example of the philosopher-statesman, though Sen did not altogether approve of Plato, whom he suspected of grossly misrepresenting Socrates.†   (source)
  • Then someone steps up with some mad idea that's just simple enough to look sensible, simple enough that busy shoemakers can know the affairs of the world are in competent hands, they needn't concern themselves--as in Plato's Republic.†   (source)
  • Their subdued conversations, however casual, were as full of meaning as the dialogues of Plato.†   (source)
  • You don't have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve.†   (source)
  • There is a direct line of descent from Socrates and Plato via St. Augustine to Descartes.†   (source)
  • Would you like, some day, Montag, to read Plato's Republic?"†   (source)
  • The halo around the heads of Plato and Socrates is now gone.†   (source)
  • According to Plato, the human body is composed of three parts: the head, the chest, and the abdomen.†   (source)
  • The name Sophist was even applied without disparagement to Socrates and Plato themselves.†   (source)
  • That is Socrates and his young pupil, Plato.†   (source)
  • It's the mode of discourse of Socrates in the Dialogues of Plato.†   (source)
  • Plato believed the dialectic was the sole method by which the truth was arrived at.†   (source)
  • And since I have also introduced Plato, we might as well begin without further ado.†   (source)
  • Now Plato's hatred of the Sophists makes sense.†   (source)
  • Then the video-Plato had looked into the camera and asked why all horses were the same.†   (source)
  • Whitehead's statement that all philosophy is nothing but "footnotes to Plato" can be well supported.†   (source)
  • In Plato's ideal state, rulers and warriors are not allowed family life or private property.†   (source)
  • Phaedrus saw Plato's philosophy as a result of two syntheses.†   (source)
  • Does that mean that Kant's philosophy is nevertheless more right than Plato's?†   (source)
  • Let us rather say that it was St. Augustine who 'christianized' Plato.†   (source)
  • The people Plato hates most, next to tyrants, are rhetoricians.†   (source)
  • Plato often names Socrates' foils for characteristics of their personality.†   (source)
  • Plato was a poet and mythologist; Aristotle's writings were as dry and precise as an encyclopedia.†   (source)
  • This kind of idea is called monism (in contrast to Plato's clear dualism or two-fold reality).†   (source)
  • Obviously they know a hundred times more about Plato and Aristotle than he ever will.†   (source)
  • Plato's Good was taken from the rhetoricians.†   (source)
  • Like Plato, he was convinced that there was a sharp division between 'spirit' and 'matter.'†   (source)
  • Descartes believed like Socrates and Plato that there is a connection between reason and being.†   (source)
  • While Plato used his reason, Aristotle used his senses as well.†   (source)
  • But you may be wondering whether Plato was being serious.†   (source)
  • So Aristotle disagreed with Plato that the "idea" chicken came before the chicken.†   (source)
  • Plotinus came close to acclaiming Plato as the savior of humanity.†   (source)
  • The Philosophic State The Myth of the Cave is found in Plato's dialogue the Republic.†   (source)
  • This was widely believed by many Greeks long before Plato.†   (source)
  • You may recall how incensed Plato was that the most righteous man in Athens had to forfeit his life.†   (source)
  • "I don't quite understand how Plato's ideas could go together with Christianity," Sophie objected.†   (source)
  • Plato calls this yearning eras—which means love.†   (source)
  • Nowadays we would perhaps call Plato's state totalitarian.†   (source)
  • Sophie felt that she saw nature in a completely different way after reading about Plato.†   (source)
  • His was unfortunately not as uplifting as Plato's.†   (source)
  • Antiquity had its great system-constructors in Plato and Aristotle.†   (source)
  • We can thus begin to glimpse at least the outline of Plato's philosophical project.†   (source)
  • But wasn't this just where Sophie thought Plato must be mistaken?†   (source)
  • Plato came to the conclusion that there must be a reality behind the "material world."†   (source)
  • All in all, we can say that Plato had a positive view of women—considering the time he lived in.†   (source)
  • Plato was the first philosopher to advocate state-organized nursery schools and full-time education.†   (source)
  • Like every aspect of Plato's philosophy, his political philosophy is characterized by rationalism.†   (source)
  • PHILOSOPHER AND SCIENTIST Dear Sophie: You were probably astonished by Plato's theory or ideas.†   (source)
  • Are you saying that Plato's theory of ideas is a reflection of vase production and wine growing?†   (source)
  • It depended on what Plato meant by sensible.†   (source)
  • Had she really seen Socrates and Plato on TV?†   (source)
  • My name is Plato and I am going to give you four tasks.†   (source)
  • Plato now imagines a state built up exactly like the tripartite human body.†   (source)
  • Aristotle held that Plato was thus "doubling the number of things."†   (source)
  • But she couldn't really have seen Plato and Socrates … oh, never mind!†   (source)
  • According to Plato, the soul had "seen" the "idea" chicken before it took up residence in a body.†   (source)
  • What Plato describes is the philosophers'way.†   (source)
  • The highest degree of reality, in Plato's theory, was that which we think with our reason.†   (source)
  • You said the church closed Plato's Academy in Athens.†   (source)
  • Then Plato had asked her a really difficult question.†   (source)
  • Her father was just saying something about Plato when Hilde suddenly interrupted him: "Shh!"†   (source)
  • Not to mention Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle.†   (source)
  • Plato a longing to return to the realm of the soul Sophie woke with a start early the next morning.†   (source)
  • Out of the Darkness of the Cave Plato relates a myth which illustrates this.†   (source)
  • Lively discourse was considered most important at Plato's Academy.†   (source)
  • Plato (428-347 B.C.) was twenty-nine years old when Socrates drank the hemlock.†   (source)
  • This remarkable view is known as Plato's theory of ideas.†   (source)
  • Plato agreed with the proposition as such—but in quite a different way.†   (source)
  • For all she knew, Plato could have been right.†   (source)
  • According to Plato, man is a dual creature.†   (source)
  • The world spirit has developed—and progressed—from Plato to Kant.†   (source)
  • That was the year when the church closed Plato's Academy in Athens.†   (source)
  • Now that she had shown her mother Alberto, there was no need to introduce her to Plato as well.†   (source)
  • Here Plato clearly uses Greek medical science as his model.†   (source)
  • An Immortal Soul As I explained, Plato believed that reality is divided into two regions.†   (source)
  • Plato also believed in the transmigration of the soul.†   (source)
  • You remember Plato's "philosophic state"?†   (source)
  • Briefly, we could say that Plato believed the state should be governed by philosophers.†   (source)
  • There is not much of Plato in this aspect of St. Augustine's work.†   (source)
  • And that is really the essence of Aristotle's criticism of Plato's theory of ideas.†   (source)
  • Plato found mathematics very absorbing because mathematical states never change.†   (source)
  • To Plato, these two problems were one and the same.†   (source)
  • So now I ask: what were the problems Plato was concerned with?†   (source)
  • We ought to give Plato the credit for having invented hide-and-seek.†   (source)
  • By the way, you may care to note that Plato was neither a potter nor a wine grower.†   (source)
  • It was also firmly rooted in the Middle Ages, and we remember it from Plato and Socrates too.†   (source)
  • While Sophie had been reading about Plato, the sun had risen over the woods to the east.†   (source)
  • Plato furthermore held that ideas were more real than all the phenomena of nature.†   (source)
  • Even the shadows deep down in Plato's cave have a faint glow of the One.†   (source)
  • This Christian view was moreover in harmony with the teachings of Plato and Aristotle.†   (source)
  • So now Plato will give you some questions to think about.†   (source)
  • No new Plato or Aristotle appeared on the scene.†   (source)
  • In India, especially, there have been strong mystical movements since long before the time of Plato.†   (source)
  • The word is identical to the Greek word idea, which was so important in Plato's philosophy.†   (source)
  • Aristotle thought Plato had turned the whole thing upside down.†   (source)
  • Plato believed that everything tangible in nature "flows."†   (source)
  • He was born in Macedonia and came to Plato's Academy when Plato was 61.†   (source)
  • But in the case of Plato, we believe that all his principal works have been preserved.†   (source)
  • She recalled that the video-Plato had given her some questions to answer.†   (source)
  • Aristotle held that Plato was thus "doubling the number of things."†   (source)
  • She had the brown envelope with the pages on Plato in her hand.†   (source)
  • Some of the writings of Aristotle and Plato were known.†   (source)
  • So it was not purely by chance that Plato's writings took the form of dialogues.†   (source)
  • Plato's Socrates provocatively tells his jury that he is a hero.†   (source)
  • Only Plato's and Xenophon's accounts survive.†   (source)
  • It is likely that this last burst of eloquence comes from Plato, not Socrates.†   (source)
  • Plato's apology describes Socrates questioning his accuser, Meletus, about the impiety charge.†   (source)
  • The security and shelter suggested by some Neolithic memory of caves probably won't work here, but something along the lines of Plato's cave interior may: perhaps this cave experience has something to do with Adela getting in touch with the deepest levels of her consciousness and perhaps being frightened by what she finds there.†   (source)
  • "Tis the man who with a man Is an equal, be he king, Or poorest of the beggar-class, Or any other wondrous thing A man may be "twixt ape and Plato.†   (source)
  • For as he progressed through the third essay (in which Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero had been crowded onto the couch with the Emperor Maximilian), the Count could hear every tick.†   (source)
  • "I am Plato's Republic.†   (source)
  • The difference was that Plato's Good was a fixed and eternal and unmoving Idea, whereas for the rhetoricians it was not an Idea at all.†   (source)
  • Rhetoric, Plato spells out very clearly, is in no way connected with the Good; rhetoric is "the Bad."†   (source)
  • His Quality and Plato's Good were so similar that if it hadn't been for some notes Phaedrus left I might have thought they were identical.†   (source)
  • "When we meet areté in Plato," he said, "we translate it 'virtue' and consequently miss all the flavour of it.†   (source)
  • What was Plato's real purpose in this?†   (source)
  • Plato hadn't tried to destroy areté.†   (source)
  • The results of Socrates' martyrdom and Plato's unexcelled prose that followed are nothing less than the whole world of Western man as we know it.†   (source)
  • The one thing that doesn't fit what he says and what Plato said about the Sophists is their profession of teaching virtue.†   (source)
  • People who can't stand the eternal lofty idealism of Plato welcome the down-to-earth facts of Aristotle.†   (source)
  • To Phaedrus, this backlight from the conflict between the Sophists and the Cosmologists adds an entirely new dimension to the Dialogues of Plato.†   (source)
  • Plato's condemnation of the Sophists is one which many scholars have already taken with great misgivings.†   (source)
  • That was why the Quality that Phaedrus had arrived at in the classroom had seemed so close to Plato's Good.†   (source)
  • People who can't stand Aristotle's endless specificity of detail are natural lovers of Plato's soaring generalities.†   (source)
  • Plato's second synthesis is the incorporation of the Sophists' areté into this dichotomy of Ideas and Appearance.†   (source)
  • Plato is the essential Buddha-seeker who appears again and again in each generation, moving onward and upward toward the "one."†   (source)
  • First they are going to destroy his status dialectically in front of the class by showing how little he knows about Plato and Aristotle.†   (source)
  • The course in the Analysis of Ideas and Study of Methods was not concerned with Plato's notion of the Good, however; it was concerned with Plato's notion of rhetoric.†   (source)
  • When it is known that Plato put his own words in Socrates' mouth (Aristotle says this) there should be no reason to doubt that he could have put his own words into other mouths too.†   (source)
  • He consistently harked back to St. Thomas Aquinas, who had taken Plato and Aristotle and made them part of his medieval synthesis of Greek philosophy and Christian faith.†   (source)
  • Plato abhors and damns the Sophists without restraint, not because they are low and immoral people…there are obviously much lower and more immoral people in Greece he completely ignores.†   (source)
  • Aristotle felt that the mortal horse of Appearance which ate grass and took people places and gave birth to little horses deserved far more attention than Plato was giving it.†   (source)
  • Thus the dethronement of dialectic from what Socrates and Plato held it to be was absolutely essential for Aristotle, and "dialectic" was and still is a fulcrum word.†   (source)
  • The Chairman of the committee himself has suggested that critics who are not certain what Plato meant should be equally uncertain of what Socrates' antagonists in the dialogues meant.†   (source)
  • But in his attempt to unite the Good and the True by making the Good the highest Idea of all, Plato is nevertheless usurping areté's place with dialectically determined truth.†   (source)
  • In order to win the battle for Truth in which areté is subordinate, against his enemies who would teach areté in which truth is subordinate, Plato must first resolve the internal conflict among the Truth-believers.†   (source)
  • The person to clear all this up, of course, was Plato, and fortunately he was the next to appear at the round table with the crack running across the middle in the dim dreary room across from the hospital building in South Chicago.†   (source)
  • Aristotle attacked this belief, saying that the dialectic was only suitable for some purposes…to enquire into men's beliefs, to arrive at truths about eternal forms of things, known as Ideas, which were fixed and unchanging and constituted reality for Plato.†   (source)
  • But one soon learns that this bad speech is simply a setup, an easy act for Socrates to follow with a much better speech of his own, and following that with a still better speech, one of the finest in all the Dialogues of Plato.†   (source)
  • And today in those few Universities that bother to teach classic ethics anymore, students, following the lead of Aristotle and Plato, endlessly play around with the question that in ancient Greece never needed to be asked: "What is the Good?†   (source)
  • This is why Plato finds it necessary to separate, for example, "horseness" from "horse" and say that horseness is real and fixed and true and unmoving, while the horse is a mere, unimportant, transitory phenomenon.†   (source)
  • I myself am pretty much Aristotelian in this sense, preferring to find the Buddha in the quality of the facts around me, but Phaedrus was clearly a Platonist by temperament and when the classes shifted to Plato he was greatly relieved.†   (source)
  • Phaedrus guessed that Aristotle's diminution of dialectic, from Plato's sole method of arriving at truth to a "counterpart of rhetoric," might be as infuriating to modern Platonists as it would have been to Plato.†   (source)
  • The next day he is at the library waiting for it to open and when it does he begins to read furiously, back behind Plato for the first time, into what little is known of those rhetoricians he so despised.†   (source)
  • Plato vilified them in all his works to grind an axe of his own and since what we know about them is almost entirely from Plato they're unique in that they've stood condemned throughout history without ever having their side of the story told.†   (source)
  • It has even been suggested by some later historians that the reason Plato hated the Sophists so was that they could not compare with his master, Socrates, who was in actuality the greatest Sophist of them all.†   (source)
  • It is what he was saying months before in the classroom in Montana, a message Plato and every dialectician since him had missed, since they all sought to define the Good in its intellectual relation to things.†   (source)
  • Why had Plato done this?†   (source)
  • Phaedrus reads further and further into pre-Socratic Greek thought to find out, and eventually comes to the view that Plato's hatred of the rhetoricians was part of a much larger struggle in which the reality of the Good, represented by the Sophists, and the reality of the True, represented by the dialecticians, were engaged in a huge struggle for the future mind of man.†   (source)
  • What Plato was illustrating in the Myth of the Cave is the philosopher's road from shadowy images to the true ideas behind all natural phenomena.†   (source)
  • Remember Plato's doctrine of ideas, Sophie, and the way he distinguished between the world of ideas and the sensory world.†   (source)
  • According to Aristotle, Plato was trapped in a mythical world picture in which the human imagination was confused with the real world.†   (source)
  • Before she had time to realize what she was doing, she grabbed the envelope and stuffed it into the brown envelope with the Plato pages.†   (source)
  • Plato would have said that there is nothing in the natural world that has not first existed in the world of ideas.†   (source)
  • He himself believed he was a hundred-percent Christian although he saw no real contradiction between Christianity and the philosophy of Plato.†   (source)
  • This view implied a pointed criticism of Plato, who had held that man brought with him a set of innate 'ideas' from the world o ideas.†   (source)
  • Perhaps he stood in an animated wrangle with one of the citizens—or held a subdued conversation with his young pupil Plato.†   (source)
  • Plato wrote a number of Dialogues, or dramatized discussions on philosophy, in which he uses Socrates as his principal character and mouthpiece.†   (source)
  • Plato's point was that Democritus' atoms never fashioned themselves into an "eledile" or a "crocophant."†   (source)
  • After having read about Plato, she had gone farther into the woods and come upon the red cabin by the little lake.†   (source)
  • Aristotle's erroneous view of the sexes was doubly harmful because it was his—rather than Plato's—view that held sway throughout the Middle Ages.†   (source)
  • After a number of significant political setbacks, Plato wrote the tows, in which he described the "constitutional state" as the next-best state.†   (source)
  • We have no innate ideas, as Plato held, but we have the innate faculty of organizing all sensory impressions into categories and classes.†   (source)
  • As I have said, Hellenistic philosophy continued to work with the problems raised by Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle.†   (source)
  • For one thing, it is by no means certain that we advance our philosophical quest by reading Plato or Aristotle.†   (source)
  • Sophie understood what Plato meant.†   (source)
  • No Innate Ideas Like the philosophers before him, Plato wanted to find the eternal and immutable in the midst of all change.†   (source)
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