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Name Date Content Institution Papyrus 2993 : 300 BC-200 BC: Sophist 223-224: Digitised Manuscripts, British Library P.Oxy.XXXIII 2662 : 100 BC-100 AD: Meno 92E-93B: Papyrology Rooms, Sackler Library, Oxford
In the Republic, Plato's Socrates raises a number of criticisms of democracy.He claims that democracy is a danger due to excessive freedom. He also argues that, in a system in which everyone has a right to rule, all sorts of selfish people who care nothing for the people but are only motivated by their own personal desires are able to attain power.
Codex Vaticanus Graecus 64, is a Greek manuscript written on parchment, housed at the Vatican Library. It is written on 289 leaves (318 by 205 mm). It was written in Thessaloniki about the year 1270. The manuscript contains 35 letters, known as Socratic Letters, dated to the 2nd or 3rd century, and written by several authors.
Socrates, since he denied any kind of knowledge, then tried to find someone wiser than himself among politicians, poets, and craftsmen. It appeared that politicians claimed wisdom without knowledge; poets could touch people with their words, but did not know their meaning; and craftsmen could claim knowledge only in specific and narrow fields.
The analogy of the Sun (or simile of the Sun or metaphor of the Sun) is found in the sixth book of The Republic (507b–509c), written by the Greek philosopher Plato as a dialogue between his brother Glaucon and Socrates, and narrated by the latter. Upon being urged by Glaucon to define goodness, a cautious Socrates professes himself incapable ...
In The Republic (509d–510a), Socrates describes the divided line to Glaucon this way: . Now take a line which has been cut into two unequal parts, and divide each of them again in the same proportion, [1] and suppose the two main divisions to answer, one to the visible and the other to the intelligible, and then compare the subdivisions in respect of their clearness and want of clearness ...
There are four works of Xenophon that deal with Socrates. They are Apology of Socrates to the Jurors (which apparently reports the defence given by Socrates in court), [11] [12] Memorabilia (which is a defence of Socrates and so-called Socratic dialogues), [11] Oeconomicus (which concerns Socrates' encounter with Ischomachus and Critobulus), [12] and Symposium (which recounts an evening at a ...
(The same translation with Stephanus numbers, side notes and full index.) Plato's Republic, translated by Paul Shorey (1935) annotated and hyperlinked text (English and Greek) at Perseus Project; The Republic public domain audiobook at LibriVox; Approaching Plato: A Guide to the Early and Middle Dialogues at Belmont University "Plato's Republic".