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Page 53
... political career and the philosophic life was not a choice that the real Socrates had ever had to face . Plato is thinking here of his own problem . The Gorgias is his final answer to the friends who had pressed him to join them , and ...
... political career and the philosophic life was not a choice that the real Socrates had ever had to face . Plato is thinking here of his own problem . The Gorgias is his final answer to the friends who had pressed him to join them , and ...
Page 64
... political power can be combined with wealth , and either can be made a means to the other , the business man will leave his counting - house and try to grip the levers of the political machine . The only way to prevent that is to effect ...
... political power can be combined with wealth , and either can be made a means to the other , the business man will leave his counting - house and try to grip the levers of the political machine . The only way to prevent that is to effect ...
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... political machine . Plato himself had no sanguine hope of success ; and any materialist is at liberty to think him a fool for saying that an ideal is none the worse for not being capable of realisation . If our critics will abandon the ...
... political machine . Plato himself had no sanguine hope of success ; and any materialist is at liberty to think him a fool for saying that an ideal is none the worse for not being capable of realisation . If our critics will abandon the ...
Contents
The Harmony of the Spheres 1930 | 14 |
The Unwritten Philosophy 1935 | 31 |
Platos Commonwealth 1935 | 47 |
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