...The Republic by Plato This electronic book is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University s Electronic Classics Series, Jim Mani... ...Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor The Republic by Plato is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document File is furnis... ...to modern metaphysics in the Philebus and in the Sophist; the Politicus or Statesman is more ideal; the form and institutions of the State are more cl... ...God, of the Utopia of Sir Thomas More, and of the numerous other imaginary States which are framed upon the same model. The extent to which Aristotle ... ...of God is within, and yet develops into a Church or external kingdom; “the house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens,” is reduced to the propo... ...appears as the friend and ally of Thrasymachus. Cephalus, the patriarch of house, has been appropriately engaged in offering a sacrifice. He is the pa... ...his enmity towards the Sophists abates; he acknowledges that they are the representatives rather than the corrupters of the world. He also becomes m... ... or in any other body, that body is, to begin with, rendered incapable of united action by reason of sedition and distraction; and does it not become... ...inciple to be the subject and ally? Certainly. And, as we were saying, the united influence of music and gymnastic will bring them into accord, nervin...

... Phaedrus by Plato, trans. Benjamin Jowett is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...cend the heights of the empyrean—all but Hestia, who is left at home to keep house. The chariots of the gods glide readily upwards and stand upon the ... ...s seen truth in the second degree, into a king or warrior; the third, into a house holder or money maker; the fourth, into a gym nast; the fifth, in... ...ghth, into a soph ist or demagogue; the ninth, into a tyrant. All these are states of probation, wherein he who lives righteously is improved, and he... ...to them, they would acknowledge also a higher love of duty and of God, which united them. And their happiness would depend upon their preserving in th... ...Republic). Is not leg islation too a sort of literary effort, and might not statesmanship be described as the ‘art of enchanting’ the house? While th... ...hoppers is naturally sug gested by the surrounding scene. They are also the representatives of the Athenians as children of the soil. Under the image... ... imagine an im mortal creature having both a body and also a soul which are united throughout all time. Let that, however , be as God wills, and be s...