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Set beside Philip , Demosthenes , nursing his pathetic dream of restoring Athens to the place she had held under Pericles , seems as blind and futile as the European politicians of to - day . For here the parallel I drew at the ...
Set beside Philip , Demosthenes , nursing his pathetic dream of restoring Athens to the place she had held under Pericles , seems as blind and futile as the European politicians of to - day . For here the parallel I drew at the ...
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The other is to take individual human nature as we find it , and to construct a social order that will make the best of it as it is and as it seems likely to remain . This is the course taken by Plato in the Republic .
The other is to take individual human nature as we find it , and to construct a social order that will make the best of it as it is and as it seems likely to remain . This is the course taken by Plato in the Republic .
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They will not desire to exercise authority ; but they will undertake the direction of society as a duty which they alone can perform Towards the end of the Republic Plato seems to become more doubtful whether wisdom can ever be ...
They will not desire to exercise authority ; but they will undertake the direction of society as a duty which they alone can perform Towards the end of the Republic Plato seems to become more doubtful whether wisdom can ever be ...
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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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