How singular is the thing called pleasure, and how curiously related to pain, which might be thought to be the opposite of it; for they never come to a man together, and yet he who pursues either of them is generally compelled to take the other. They are two, and yet they grow together out of one head or stem.
5th-century BCE Greek philosopher
Socrates (Σωκράτης; c. 470 BC – 399 BC) was a classical Greek (Athenian) philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy. Through his portrayal in Plato's dialogues, Socrates has become renowned for his contribution to the field of ethics, and it is this Platonic Socrates who lends his name to the concepts of Socratic irony and the Socratic method, or elenchus. The latter remains a commonly used tool in a wide range of discussions, and is a type of pedagogy in which a series of questions is asked not only to draw individual answers, but also to encourage fundamental insight into the issue at hand.
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Native Name:
Σωκράτης
Alternative Names:
Sokrates
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Sokratis
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If the entire soul, then, follows without rebellion the part which loves wisdom, the result is that in general each part can carry out its own function—can be just, in other words—and in particular each is able to enjoy pleasures which are its own, the best, and, as far as possible, the truest. ... When one of the other parts takes control, there are two results: it fails to discover its own proper pleasure, and it compels the other parts to pursue a pleasure which is not their own, and not true.
The inexperienced in wisdom and virtue, ever occupied with feasting and such, are carried downward, and there, as is fitting, they wander their whole life long, neither ever looking upward to the truth above them nor rising toward it, nor tasting pure and lasting pleasures. Like cattle, always looking downward with their heads bent toward the ground and the banquet tables, they feed, fatten, and fornicate. In order to increase their possessions they kick and butt with horns and hoofs of steel and kill each other, insatiable as they are.
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Estás em erro, meu amigo, se pensas que um homem, possuidor de algum mérito, deve calcular os riscos de viver ou morrer, em vez de, quando age, considerar apenas se o que faz é justo ou injusto, é obra de um homem de bem ou de um perverso. (...) Seria, de facto, um procedimento estranho o meu, Atenienses, se , depois de me ter mantido firme como qualquer soldado, afrontando a morte, no posto que os generais, por vós eleitos, me confiaram em Potideia, em Anfípolis e em Délio, abandonasse agora, por medo da morte ou do que quer que seja, o posto que me foi atribuído por um Deus, renunciando à missão conscientemente aceite, de viver filosofando, examinando-me a mim próprio e aos outros
Estás em erro, meu amigo, se pensas que um homem, possuidor de algum mérito, deve calcular os riscos de viver ou morrer, em vez de, quando age, considerar apenas se o que faz é justo ou injusto, é obra de um homem de bem ou de um perverso. (...) Seria, de facto, um procedimento estranho o meu, Atenienses, se , depois de me ter mantido firme como qualquer soldado, afrontado a morte, no posto que os generais, por vós eleitos, me confiaram em Potideia, em Anfípolis e em Délio, abandonasse agora, por medo da morte ou do que quer que seja, o posto que me foi atribuído por um Deus, renunciando à missão conscientemente aceite, de viver filosofando, examinando-me a mim próprio e aos outros