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spoke at first, but another equally safe, of which the truth will be inferred by
you from what has been just said. I mean that if any one asks you ‘what that
is, of which the inherence makes the body hot,’ you will reply not heat (this is
what I call the safe and stupid answer), but fire, a far superior answer, which
we are now in a condition to give. Or if any one asks you ‘why a body is
diseased,’ you will not say from disease, but from fever; and instead of saying
that oddness is the cause of odd numbers, you will say that the monad is the
cause of them: and so of things in general, as I dare say that you will
understand sufficiently without my adducing any further examples.
Yes, he said, I quite understand you.
Tell me, then, what is that of which the inherence will render the body
alive?
The soul, he replied.
And is this always the case?
Yes, he said, of course.
Then whatever the soul possesses, to that she comes bearing life?
Yes, certainly.
And is there any opposite to life?
There is, he said.
And what is that?
Death.
Then the soul, as has been acknowledged, will never receive the opposite
of what she brings.
Impossible, replied Cebes.
And now, he said, what did we just now call that principle which repels the
even?
The odd.
And that principle which repels the musical, or the just?
The unmusical, he said, and the unjust.
And what do we call the principle which does not admit of death?
The immortal, he said.
And does the soul admit of death?
No.
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The Complete Plato
- Titel
- The Complete Plato
- Autor
- Plato
- Datum
- ~347 B.C.
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- englisch
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- 1612
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- Philosophy, Antique, Philosophie, Antike, Dialogues, Metaphysik, Metaphysics, Ideologie, Ideology, Englisch
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