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Cleinias. True again.
Athenian. Of what nature is the movement of mind?—To this question it is
not easy to give an intelligent answer; and therefore I ought to assist you in
framing one.
Cleinias. Very good.
Athenian. Then let us not answer as if we would look straight at the sun,
making ourselves darkness at midday—I mean as if we were under the
impression that we could see with mortal eyes, or know adequately the nature
of mind;—it will be safer to look at the image only.
Cleinias. What do you mean?
Athenian. Let us select of the ten motions the one which mind chiefly
resembles; this I will bring to your recollection, and will then make the
answer on behalf of us all.
Cleinias. That will be excellent.
Athenian. You will surely remember our saying that all things were either
at rest or in motion?
Cleinias. I do.
Athenian. And that of things in motion some were moving in one place, and
others in more than one?
Cleinias. Yes.
Athenian. Of these two kinds of motion, that which moves in one place
must move about a centre like globes made in a lathe, and is most entirely
akin and similar to the circular movement of mind.
Cleinias. What do you mean?
Athenian. In saying that both mind and the motion which is in one place
move in the same and like manner, in and about the same, and in relation to
the same, and according to one proportion and order, and are like the motion
of a globe, we invented a fair image, which does no discredit to our ingenuity.
Cleinias. It does us great credit.
Athenian. And the motion of the other sort which is not after the same
manner, nor in the same, nor about the same, nor in relation to the same, nor
in one place, nor in order, nor according to any rule or proportion, may be
said to be akin to senselessness and folly?
Cleinias. That is most true.
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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