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The paraphrased saying, though widely attributed to Plato's Socrates in both ancient and modern times, actually occurs nowhere in Plato's works in precisely the form "I know I know nothing." [ 7 ] Two prominent Plato scholars have recently argued that the claim should not be attributed to Plato's Socrates.
Aristotle taught that tragedy is composed of six elements: plot-structure, character, style, thought, spectacle, and lyric poetry. [157] The characters in a tragedy are merely a means of driving the story; and the plot, not the characters, is the chief focus of tragedy.
In Plato's Ion (/ ˈ aɪ ɒ n /; Ancient Greek: Ἴων) Socrates discusses with the titular character, a professional rhapsode who also lectures on Homer, the question of whether the rhapsode, a performer of poetry, gives his performance on account of his skill and knowledge or by virtue of divine possession. It is one of the shortest of Plato ...
"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet." - Aristotle [32] Τὶ δύσκολον; Τὸ ἑαυτὸν γνῶναι. [33] Tì dúskolon? Tò heautòn gnônai. "What is hard? To know thyself." — attributed (among other sages) to Thales, according to Pausanias [34] Oedipus and the sphinx, on an Attic red-figure kylix
The works of Aristotle, sometimes referred to by modern scholars with the Latin phrase Corpus Aristotelicum, is the collection of Aristotle's works that have survived from antiquity. According to a distinction that originates with Aristotle himself, his writings are divisible into two groups: the " exoteric " and the " esoteric ". [ 1 ]
Aristotle's work on aesthetics consists of the Poetics, Politics (Bk VIII), and Rhetoric. [8] The Poetics was lost to the Western world for a long time. The text was restored to the West in the Middle Ages and early Renaissance only through a Latin translation of an Arabic version written by Averroes. [9]
Taylor Swift' Travis Kelce. Swifties are freaking out over a super discreet nod to Travis Kelce in the new lyric video for one of Taylor Swift's The Tortured Poets Department tracks.. After the ...
In his poem Zueignung (1787), the female personification of Truth says: "Know thyself, live with the world in peace." This has been called the "keynote" of Goethe's attitude toward the maxim; his central idea, as elaborated in several later writings, was that self-knowledge cannot be obtained through inward contemplation, but only through ...