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It is the mark of a modest man to accept his friendly circle ready-made from the hands of opportunity;
“who is ever still, alone, mindful of their thoughts, and focused on nothing?”
― Wildcat Wizard Complete Collection
― Wildcat Wizard Complete Collection
“the argument goes, the same thing can’t be thus affected in opposing ways at the same time, so it must be that it is not the person as a whole who is in this contradictory state, but different parts of him which do the pulling in opposite directions.”
― Ancient Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction
― Ancient Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction
“the argument goes, the same thing can’t be thus affected in opposing ways at the same time, so it must be that it is not the person as a whole who is in this contradictory state, but different parts of him which do the pulling in opposite directions. When I reflect correctly, then, I can see that I don’t want to drink and want not to drink; rather, part of me, which Plato calls desire, wants to drink, and another part of me, which is reason (my ability to grasp and act on reasons), is motivated to refrain.”
― Ancient Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction
― Ancient Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction
“Academy, Plato’s own school, for hundreds of years – until it came to an end in the first century BC – took its task to be that of arguing against the views of others without relying on a position of one’s own.”
― Ancient Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction
― Ancient Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction
“This picture implies, though, that reason has a kind of internal hold on the other parts – it asks them, so to speak, to do things in terms that they can understand and agree to. But then won’t the parts other than reason have to have a kind of reason of their own, in order to understand and go along with what the reason part demands? And then won’t all the parts have to have their own reasons? – which makes it unclear how we are supposed to have found a part of the soul which is separate from reason.”
― Ancient Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction
― Ancient Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction
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