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and all the practitioners of the
minor arts as philosophers?” “Not at all,” I
said; “but they do bear a certain likeness1 to
philosophers.”“Whom
do you mean, then, by the true philosophers?” “Those for
whom the truth is the spectacle of which they are enamored,2” said I. “Right
again,3” said
he; “but in what sense do you mean it?” “It
would be by no means easy to explain it to another,” I said,
“but I think that you will grant me this.”
“What?” “That since the fair and honorable is
the opposite of the base and ugly, they are two.”
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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