[559a]
Is not that so ?”
“Most assuredly.” “Then we shall rightly use
the word ‘necessary’ of them?”
“Rightly.” “And what of the desires from which
a man could free himself by discipline from youth up, and whose presence in
the soul does no good and in some cases harm? Should we not fairly call all
such unnecessary?” “Fairly indeed.”
“Let us select an example of either kind, so that we may apprehend
the type.1” “Let us do
so.” “Would not the desire of eating to keep in health
and condition and the appetite
1 Or “grasp them in outline.”
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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