by margaret | Jun 16, 2021 | cave, plato, socrates
Socrates: And now, I said, let me show in a figure how far our nature is enlightened or unenlightened: Behold! Human beings living in an underground den, which has a mouth open towards the light and reaching all along the den; here they have been from their childhood,...
by margaret | Jun 15, 2021 | equality, phaedrus, plato, socrates
phaedrus 74-76 socrates: All these examples show, then, that recollection is caused by like things and also by unlike things, do they not? simmias: Yes. socrates: And when one has a recollection of anything caused by like things, will he not also inevitably consider...
by margaret | Jan 21, 2020 | plato
We had come from our home at Clazomenae to Athens, and met Adeimantus and Glaucon in the Agora. Welcome, Cephalus, said Adeimantus, taking me by the hand; is there anything which we can do for you in Athens? Yes; that is why I am here; I wish to ask a...
