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Socrates gently berates the rhapsode for being Protean, which after all, is exactly what a rhapsode is: a man who is convincingly capable of being different people on stage. Through his character Socrates, Plato argues that "Ion’s talent as an interpreter cannot be an art, a definable body of knowledge or an ordered system of skills," but ...
Thomas Hardy (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Wordsworth. [1]
In Plato's Republic, the character of Socrates is highly critical of democracy and instead proposes, as an ideal political state, a hierarchal system of three classes: philosopher-kings or guardians who make the decisions, soldiers or "auxiliaries" who protect the society, and producers who create goods and do other work. [1]
A not untypical thematic stress on life's ironies is present, [4] though Hardy himself was insistent that the title phrase was a poetic image only, and not to be taken as a philosophical belief. [5] He also pointed out that behind the "I" of the poems stood not autobiography so much as "dramatic monologues by different characters".
Thomas Hardy was born on 3 March 1752 in Larbert, Stirlingshire, Scotland, the son of a merchant seaman. [1] His father died in 1760 at sea while Thomas was still a boy. He was sent to school by his maternal grandfather [1] and later apprenticed to a shoemaker in Stirlingshire. He later worked in the Carron Iron Works.
(The Center Square) – Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs laid out her goals for the new legislative session during her State of the State address on Monday afternoon as she faces a larger Republican majority.
Socratic dialogue (Ancient Greek: Σωκρατικὸς λόγος) is a genre of literary prose developed in Greece at the turn of the fourth century BC. The earliest ones are preserved in the works of Plato and Xenophon and all involve Socrates as the protagonist.
Hardy clarified that the motorcycle lip movement was an accident. "I was probably on the bike ad-libbing outside the window as Eddie's just panicking, and Venom is talking at the same time," he ...