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the name “even” is “number divisible into two equal parts”?
Cleinias. True.
Athenian. I mean, that when we are asked about the definition and give the
name, or when we are asked about the name and give the definition—in either
case, whether we give name or definition, we speak of the same thing, calling
“even” the number which is divided into two equal parts.
Cleinias. Quite true.
Athenian. And what is the definition of that which is named “soul”? Can
we conceive of any other than that which has been already given—the motion
which can move itself?
Cleinias. You mean to say that the essence which is defined as the self–
moved is the same with that which has the name soul?
Athenian. Yes; and if this is true, do we still maintain that there is anything
wanting in the proof that the soul is the first origin and moving power of all
that is, or has become, or will be, and their contraries, when she has been
clearly shown to be the source of change and motion in all things?
Cleinias. Certainly not; the soul as being the source of motion, has been
most satisfactorily shown to be the oldest of all things.
Athenian. And is not that motion which is produced in another, by reason
of another, but never has any self–moving power at all, being in truth the
change of an inanimate body, to be reckoned second, or by any lower number
which you may prefer?
Cleinias. Exactly.
Athenian. Then we are right, and speak the most perfect and absolute truth,
when we say that the soul is prior to the body, and that the body is second and
comes afterwards, and is born to obey the soul, which is the ruler?
Cleinias. Nothing can be more true.
Athenian. Do you remember our old admission, that if the soul was prior to
the body the things of the soul were also prior to those of the body?
Cleinias. Certainly.
Athenian. Then characters and manners, and wishes and reasonings, and
true opinions, and reflections, and recollections are prior to length and breadth
and depth and strength of bodies, if the soul is prior to the body.
Cleinias. To be sure.
Athenian. In the next place, must we not of necessity admit that the soul is
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Buch The Complete Plato"
The Complete Plato
- Titel
- The Complete Plato
- Autor
- Plato
- Datum
- ~347 B.C.
- Sprache
- englisch
- Lizenz
- PD
- Abmessungen
- 21.0 x 29.7 cm
- Seiten
- 1612
- Schlagwörter
- Philosophy, Antique, Philosophie, Antike, Dialogues, Metaphysik, Metaphysics, Ideologie, Ideology, Englisch
- Kategorien
- Geisteswissenschaften
- International