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533E - 534E In conclusion, after pointing out the proportions between the different intellectual states, Socrates declares that the essential feature of Dialectic is its power to grasp the reason or principle of all Being, separating the Idea of Good, for example, from everything else, defining it in words, and scrutinizing the definition by tests, from each and all of which it must emerge triumphantly. Glauco agrees that such a study is indispensable to the rulers, and that the curriculum is now complete. οὐ γὰρ οὖν, ἔφη. See cr. n. The interpolation which follows these words in all MSS except Ξ is discussed in App. XVI. ἀρέσκει οὖν. See cr. n. Though γοῦν is in A and Ξ, a majority of MSS read οὖν, which is alone suitable. The same error occurs in one or more MSS in V 455 E and VI 506 C (Schneider).
The Republic of Plato. James Adam. 1902. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press.
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