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Φίληβος

Φίληβος Plato

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Socrates
Soc. Then this is the way I lead.
Protarchus
Pro. What way?
Socrates
Soc. Do we agree that there is such a thing as false opinion and also as true opinion? 10
Protarchus
Pro. There is.
Socrates
Soc. And, as we were saying just now, pleasure and pain often follow them—I mean true and false opinion.
Protarchus
Pro. Certainly.
Socrates
Soc. And do not opinion and the power of forming an opinion always come to us from memory and perception?
Protarchus
Pro. Certainly. 15
Socrates
Soc. Do we, then, believe that our relation to these faculties is somewhat as follows?
Protarchus
Pro. How?
Socrates
Soc. Would you say that often when a man sees things at a distance and not very clearly, he wishes to distinguish between the things which he sees?
Protarchus
Pro. Yes, I should say so.
Socrates
Soc. Next, then, would he not ask himself— 20
Protarchus
Pro. What?
Socrates
Soc. What is that which is visible standing beside the rock under a tree? Do you not think a man might ask himself such a question if he saw such objects presented to his view?
Protarchus
Pro. To be sure.
Socrates
Soc. And after that our gazer might reply to himself correctly It is a man?
Protarchus
Pro. Certainly. 25
Socrates
Soc. Or, again, perhaps he might be misled into the belief that it was a work of some shepherds, and then he would call the thing which he saw an image.
Protarchus
Pro. Yes, indeed.

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