6
votes
Accepted
What did Jefferson intend to say by Plato's "whimsies into the body of artificial Christianity"?
By "Plato's whimsies" he almost certainly means the idea of the Ideal Forms, or more in general, the metaphysical idea of their being another layer of "Reality" deeper and more real than our own, and ...
- 2,296
4
votes
Accepted
Allusion to Plato in Fahrenheit 451?
This excerpt:
Montag shook his head. He looked at a blank wall. The girl's face was there, really quite beautiful in memory: astonishing, in fact. She had a very thin face like the dial of a small ...
- 2,196
3
votes
Accepted
What does the riddle at the end of Plato's Republic book 5 mean?
The riddle is given, together with its answer, in the Deipnosophistae of Athenaeus of Naucratis:
And a similar [riddle] is that of Panarces, mentioned by Clearchus, in his Essay on Griphi [riddles],...
- 53.5k
3
votes
Where in the Republic does an Athenian businessman castigate "Socrates for his pursuit of abstract knowledge"?
He may be referring to a passage by the businessman Callicles in Plato's Gorgias.
Philosophy, as a part of education, is an excellent thing, and there
is no disgrace to a man while he is young in ...
- 131
2
votes
Accepted
Where in the Republic does an Athenian businessman castigate "Socrates for his pursuit of abstract knowledge"?
In Book III there is a passage somewhat like yours:
The subjects of poetry have been sufficiently treated; next follows style. Now all poetry is a narrative of events past, present, or to come; and ...
- 3,965
Only top scored, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible