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The genuine lover of wisdom — the philosopher — is the man whose character and intellect have been so trained that ... Society is now governed , not by such men , but by the lovers of wealth and power , who cannot conceive a higher end ...
The genuine lover of wisdom — the philosopher — is the man whose character and intellect have been so trained that ... Society is now governed , not by such men , but by the lovers of wealth and power , who cannot conceive a higher end ...
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Second , the lovers of honour and power , who desire distinction in the active life . Third , the men . whom Plato calls philosophers , the lovers of wisdom and knowledge , the spectators of all time and all existence — a phrase that ...
Second , the lovers of honour and power , who desire distinction in the active life . Third , the men . whom Plato calls philosophers , the lovers of wisdom and knowledge , the spectators of all time and all existence — a phrase that ...
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It is true that , once the individual's proper level has been determined , Plato said that he must stay on that level ; and he may have been rash in assuming that the several types of disposition — the — lovers of wealth , the lovers of ...
It is true that , once the individual's proper level has been determined , Plato said that he must stay on that level ; and he may have been rash in assuming that the several types of disposition — the — lovers of wealth , the lovers of ...
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Contents
The Harmony of the Spheres 1930 | 14 |
The Unwritten Philosophy 1935 | 28 |
Platos Commonwealth 1935 | 47 |
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| Title | The Unwritten Philosophy and Other Essays |
| Author | Francis Macdonald Cornford |
| Editor | William Keith Chambers Guthrie |
| Contributor | William Keith Chambers Guthrie |
| Publisher | University Press, 1950 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 28 Jun 2006 |
| Length | 138 pages |
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