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procured.
True, he said.
Then we must enlarge our borders; for the original healthy State is no
longer sufficient. Now will the city have to fill and swell with a multitude of
callings which are not required by any natural want; such as the whole tribe of
hunters and actors, of whom one large class have to do with forms and colors;
another will be the votaries of music—poets and their attendant train of
rhapsodists, players, dancers, contractors; also makers of divers kinds of
articles, including women’s dresses. And we shall want more servants. Will
not tutors be also in request, and nurses wet and dry, tirewomen and barbers,
as well as confectioners and cooks; and swineherds, too, who were not needed
and therefore had no place in the former edition of our State, but are needed
now? They must not be forgotten: and there will be animals of many other
kinds, if people eat them.
Certainly.
And living in this way we shall have much greater need of physicians than
before?
Much greater.
And the country which was enough to support the original inhabitants will
be too small now, and not enough?
Quite true.
Then a slice of our neighbors’ land will be wanted by us for pasture and
tillage, and they will want a slice of ours, if, like ourselves, they exceed the
limit of necessity, and give themselves up to the unlimited accumulation of
wealth?
That, Socrates, will be inevitable.
And so we shall go to war, Glaucon. Shall we not?
Most certainly, he replied. Then, without determining as yet whether war
does good or harm, thus much we may affirm, that now we have discovered
war to be derived from causes which are also the causes of almost all the evils
in States, private as well as public.
Undoubtedly.
And our State must once more enlarge; and this time the enlargement will
be nothing short of a whole army, which will have to go out and fight with the
invaders for all that we have, as well as for the things and persons whom we
were describing above.
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The Complete Plato
- Titel
- The Complete Plato
- Autor
- Plato
- Datum
- ~347 B.C.
- Sprache
- englisch
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- 21.0 x 29.7 cm
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- 1612
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- Philosophy, Antique, Philosophie, Antike, Dialogues, Metaphysik, Metaphysics, Ideologie, Ideology, Englisch
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