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Excerpt from The Sophistes of Plato: A Dialogue on True and False Teaching There are two ways' of treating an intellectual dis covery, which is apt on its first revelation to the consciousness to dazzle and mislead. The provisional emancipation of the soul from external trammels, whether: natural or artificial, is undoubtedly a step in the right direction, but the eventual realisation of its rightful authority as free reason depends on the way in which this first step is followed up. One way of doing so is to make the acquisition of prac tical utilities and showy accomplishments the pri mary aim, in ignorance or distrust of any absolute test or rule of truth and right, and so carelessly adopting the standards of current opinion; another to look more especially to the improvement of the soul itself, striving to exalt its powers and purify its aspirations rather than adorn it with accomplish ments, and in a sense reversing its newly gained notions of supremacy, by teaching it to look yet higher than itself, and to found its best claim to superiority on the consciousness of deficiency and want. Both of these processes may be popularly termed education but one is comparatively limited, technical, and secular; the other is a less showy but. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Kategoria Książki po angielsku Humanities Philosophy History of Western philosophy

• Pełny tytuł: Sophistes of Plato
• Podtytuł: A Dialogue on True and False Teaching (Classic Reprint)
• Autor: Plato
• Język: Angielski
• Oprawa: Miękka
• Liczba stron: 204
• EAN: 9781330267196
• ISBN: 9781330267196
• ID: 09442280
• Wydawca: Forgotten Books
• Waga: 281 g
• Wymiary: 229 × 152 × 11 mm
• Data wydania: 02. June 2015

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