Sublime

Par conséquent, Thrasymaque, tout homme qui gouverne, considéré comme tel et de quelque nature que soit son autorité, ne se propose jamais son intérêt propre, mais celui des sujets : c’est à ce but qu’il vise, c’est pour leur procurer ce qui leur est avantageux et convenable, qu’il dit tout ce qu’il dit et fait tout ce qu’il fait.

Meno

Cependant, c’est avec Platon que l’on va avoir pour la première fois une œuvre philosophique véritablement constituée, pleinement développée dans chacun des trois niveaux constitutifs de la discipline : une théorie de la connaissance, une conception du juste et de l’injuste (une morale et une politique), et une réflexion sur la vie bonne, une sotér

In the first place, Plato has no understanding of philosophical syntax. I can say “Socrates is human,” “Plato is human,” and so on. In all these statements, it may be assumed that the word “human” has exactly the same meaning. But whatever it means, it means something which is not of the same kind as Socrates, Plato, and the rest of the individuals

Some one may wonder why I go about in private giving advice and busying myself with the concerns of others, but do not venture to come forward in public and advise the state. I will tell you why.

Plato having anointed truth as the goal of philosophy, the goal of human life. ‘Assuredly we must be bold to speak what is true, above all when our discourse is upon truth

Why, I replied, what do you want more? 'Only the comforts of life,—sofas and tables, also sauces and sweets.' I see; you want not only a State, but a luxurious State; and possibly in the more complex frame we may sooner find justice and injustice. Then the fine arts must go to work—every

he ought to have preferred seeming to being.

Men of Athens, this reputation of mine has come of a certain sort of wisdom which I possess. If you ask me what kind of wisdom, I reply, wisdom such as