[489d]
But far the greatest and chief disparagement of philosophy is brought upon
it by the pretenders1 to that way of life, those whom you had in mind when
you affirmed that the accuser of philosophy says that the majority of her
followers2 are rascals and
the better sort useless, while I admitted3 that what you said was true.
Is not that so?” “Yes.”“Have we not, then, explained the cause of the
uselessness of the better sort?” “We have.”
“Shall we next set forth the inevitableness of the degeneracy of
the majority, and try to show if we can that philosophy
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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